Scratch outline for The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Author background – Maxine Hong Kingston
Chinese-american
Professor writer
Bay area
China Men
The Fifth Book of Peace (twice)
Woman Warrior
Organizational structure
Chapter organization – loosely linked
Myth, fact, dream, storytelling “talk story”
Voice – weaving of the narrative
Sample narrative to analyze
I. Context of book
a. Woman Warrior one of several books
b. It’s place in her “life work”
c. Discuss as untraditional memoir
II. Weaving of Myth with traditional storytelling
a. Ghosts
b. “women warriors”
c. Technique to demonstrate difficulty of being a “good Chinese-american girl”
III. difficulty of assimiliation
a. what it means to be an American
b. Fa Mu Lan versus high school student
c. Living up to parental expectations
IV. How writers “create” their lives
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