The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts | memoir by Kingston | Britannica (original) (raw)

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discussed in biography

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  In Maxine Hong Kingston
  …Kingston published her first book, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. It combines myth, family history, folktales, and memories of the experience of growing up within two conflicting cultures. The book was an immediate critical success, winning the 1976 National Book Critics’ Circle Award for nonfiction. In…
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use of irony

• In irony
  in memoirs: Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior (1976) uses it to disrupt racial stereotypes, while Dave Eggers’s A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000) explores irony’s boundaries.
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