Written in the late 1900’s, The Woman Warrior is a compilation of memoirs written by Maxine Hong Kingston. The story constantly switches between fiction and reality, which often gives the reader a sense of harmony between the two. Kingston is heavily influenced by the stories her mother tells her and Chinese folktale. The Woman Warrior is split into five different sections that each influences her in different ways. In the first section titled No Name Woman her father’s sister commits suicide
versatile backgrounds, personalities, and traditions. In essence American literature, like America, is an abundance of voices, constantly changing to add its own rich challenged view of history, and identity. Through the writings of Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, Audre Lorde’s Uses of Anger, and Sherman
unique in our own way. In the book, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts, by Maxine Hong Kingston, although Kingston has grown into an independent and free-spirited adult, her memory still played a large part in the shaping of her identity because she continually faced the pain, silence and shame of her no name aunt, because she found the strength and inspiration to fight like a warrior and because she finally found her voice. Kingston’s mother was the great family, storyteller