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	Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940)
		The Woman Warrior, of course, is all of the above, sequentially and simultaneously, a collage of genres.
		One of the distinctive accomplishments of The Woman Warrior is that it crosses boundaries between genres, dictions, styles, between fact and fiction, as it crosses the boundaries between cultures, Chinese and American.
		Her most significant addition, however, is the woman warrior's marriage and childbearing while still in armor disguised as a man. In the original ballad, Mulan performs these roles sequentially; in Kingston's version, simultaneously.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/kingston.html (921 words)

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	Saga Journal: Princess Leia and the Woman Warrior, by lazypadawan
		One of the rarest but also one of the most fascinating archetypes in literature is the fabled woman warrior. The reason why it is intriguing and rare is because women are traditionally life-givers and nuturers. Fighting and violence are antithetical to this role.
		Most woman warriors arise out of necessity, since it has generally not been a traditional role for women. Usually, women have been pressed into warrior or defender roles if there is a shortage of men or there is no strong male leader. Amazon society was a matriarchy, ruled by two queens.
		A fascinating and unique aspect of Leia's character as a warrior is that she combines what was best about this archetype in the past with a modern understanding of women's roles in society. Yet unlike her modern or ancient sisters, Leia is allowed to find personal fulfillment and indeed live happily ever after.
	www.sagajournal.com /lpwomanwarrior.html (1230 words)

	Student Archives, Identity in The Woman Warrior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The character of the woman warrior is contradictory in form, balancing both female strength and wisdom combined with a duty towards the family, as defined under patriarchal order.
		There are still a few surviving speakers of it in remote areas of China and a woman was arrested for speaking this language as recently as the 1960s because the Communist Guards couldn't understand her speaking or writing and thought she was a spy speaking an international code.
		Most importantly, in relation to The Woman Warrior, Nu Shu seems to have acted as a secret language that was used by the women to give comfort and reassurance to each other, particularly through songs that described the sadness of their lives.
	www.warwick.ac.uk /fac/arts/oldenglish/resources/naww/studentwork/identity.htm (2020 words)

	Academic: "Woman Warrior" Journal 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Kingston defines a woman warrior in several ways, beginning with her fictional journey as a child, when she lived with the old couple to be trained.
		However, it appears that a woman warrior may be one that breaks the rules, becoming something that a woman typically is not.
		A woman warrior is a woman who breaks society’s rules to follow her own dreams.
	junior.apk.net /~jcarman/warrior2.html (558 words)

	Interchange Session #3: "The Woman Warrior"
		I also feel that this essay is trying to explain to the reader that the stories she was told when she was young gave her the desire and determination to fight against the stima place upon her by her culture as well as her society.
		Kingston does point out that her mother is the one talking-story the tales of the Woman Warrior, but at the same time, the mother also criticizes her daughter.
		She is always telling the stories about the woman warrior and how it was women who invented most of the martial arts, including the "Crane boxing." Her mother needs to realise that they now live in the states and she can now let her real feelings about womens rolls in society be known.
	www.skidmore.edu /academics/english/courses/en103/itcww.htm (3030 words)

	Woman Warrior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Fa Mu Lan is everything that a man should be; a brave warrior, powerful and victorious, but at the same time she respects her role as a woman.
		Instead, she finishes her man’s work, never revealing that she is a woman, and becomes the submissive wife that every woman is expected to be.
		The fourth woman character presented by Kingston is the character of Moon Orchid, Brave Orchid’s sister.
	cc.kzoo.edu /~k03cr01/woman_warrior.html (1437 words)

	The woman warrior - The Boston Globe
		On the left was the pretty, blond, smiling figurehead of some unknown group of Happy Homemakers.
		On the right was Betty Friedan, mouth open in midshout, face contorted, as unattractive a photo of this woman as was ever chosen by any editor.
		It reminded me of what this passionate and irascible, strong-willed, and difficult woman was up against: a culture with prescribed roles for women and harsh ways of slapping down those who didn't conform.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/02/07/the_woman_warrior (711 words)

	SparkNotes: The Woman Warrior: Themes, Motifs, and Symbols
		For a woman, this frustration is heightened because many of the typical traits of Chinese women, such as a loud speaking voice, are not considered "American-feminine." Another difficulty in being Chinese-American is that one's cultural heritage is always second-hand, filtered through the lens—or talk-story—of someone else.
		Much of The Woman Warrior is a struggle—between mother and daughter, daughter and society, and so on—making the warrior motif especially appropriate.
		She is clearly the most forceful and free-willed woman in the memoir, especially in comparison to her sister, Moon Orchid.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/womanwarrior/themes.html (1849 words)

	Academic: "Woman Warrior" Journal 1
		The damaging effect of telling a young woman who has just begun menstruating is that the child is only informed of a dark side to a completely natural event in her life.
		Kingston’s mother obviously doesn’t want her daughter to fall to the same fate of suicide, but at the same time is attempting to prevent her daughter from bringing shame to the family.
		Unlike the story of her aunt, Kingston’s woman warrior fantasy leaves her remembered by the family as well as the village.
	junior.apk.net /~jcarman/warrior1.html (760 words)

	The Collection of Bronzes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The warrior carries a shield of the"boeotian" type and he wears a helmet-cum-hat on his head.
		It was found in the sanctuary of Zeus at Dodona and was probably the pair of a similar statuette, now in Louvre.
		The young woman is clad in a peplos and holds a dove in her left hand.
	www.culture.gr /2/21/214/21405m/e21405m4.html (433 words)

	The White Goddess - Aspects Of The Goddess - Andraste - The Warrior Goddess.
		Andraste is a warrior goddess, the goddess of victory, of ravens and of battles, similar in many ways to the Irish war goddess Morrigan.
		Therefore it could possibly be deduced that Boudicca was not her personal name, but perhaps an official or religious title which would mean that from the point of view of her followers that she was the personification of a goddess.
		As Andraste she represented the darkest, most needful aspects of warcraft, to be called upon in times of dire emergency and propitiated with the sacrifice of blood, considered to be the most potent magic of all.
	www.thewhitegoddess.co.uk /goddess/andraste.html (950 words)

	W. Li: Review of Wong, Kingston's The Woman Warrior
		The history of The Woman Warrior's reception is an interesting one: while the mainstream media enthusiastically welcomed the work, a significant portion of the Chinese American community questioned the way Kingston made liberal use of Chinese historical myths and voiced concerns over her portrayal of the Chinese American community.
		Her thesis is that although The Woman Warrior is billed as autobiography, it should be read as "a sort of meditation on what it means to be Chinese American" (45).
		Like it or not, "the burden of being viewed narrowly as spokespersons for the 'ethnic' experience" is a recalcitrant fact due to the limited volume of ethnic literature as well as its insufficient exposure to the mainstream readership (Woo 173) and therefore cannot be cast off as easily as one might have wished.
	rmmla.wsu.edu /ereview/54.1/reviews/li.asp (973 words)

	HARRIET TUBMAN: WOMAN WARRIOR
		It was at the tender age of 5, when 'Minta' was rented out to a white woman nearby for "domestic work." On her first day, before breakfast, the child was lashed with a leather strap four times across her face.
		As a young woman, she made her way out of the house of bondage, and, not content with her own freedom, she resolved to return to the plantations to lead others out of bondage.
		One woman brought two pigs, a white one and a fl one; we took them all on board; named the white pig Beauregard [a Southern general], and the fl one Jeff Davis [president of the Confederacy].
	www.cwo.com /~lucumi/tubman.html (733 words)

	Amazon.com: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts: Books: Maxine Hong Kingston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Like the woman warrior of the title, Kingston carries the crimes against her family carved into her back by her parents in testimony to and defiance of the pain.
		There was "solid America," the place her parents emigrated to, and the China of her mother's "talk-stories." In talk-stories women were warriors and her mother was still a doctor in China who could cure the sick and scare away ghosts, not a harried and frustrated woman running a stifling laundromat in California.
		The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
	www.amazon.com /Woman-Warrior-Memoirs-Girlhood-Ghosts/dp/0679721886 (2934 words)

	Does Kingston exorcise or create ghost in The Woman Warrior
		Sato describes her essay as "read[ing] The Woman Warrior as a distinctly Asian-American text by showing how "ghost" designates a particular as well as a shared Chinese-American existence" (Sato 193).
		Exposing these various themes of cruelty, "The Woman Warrior and China Men are words of exorcism through which the author negotiates her own terms of peace as an American of Chinese ancestry" (Lau 51).
		The Woman Warrior and China Men are words of exorcism through which the author negiotates her own terms of peace as an American of Chinese ancestry." (Lau 51).
	www.unc.edu /~yelton/WomanWarriorPresentation.htm (759 words)

	Maxing Hong Kingston
		In The Woman Warrior the first-person narrator explores her identity formation in relation to her mother and female relatives.
		Kingston's main project in The Woman Warrior is to avenge oppression by reporting stories about the women in her family.
		In The Woman Warrior Maxine is weaving a strand of matrilineal line into patrilineage; in China Men she weaves her own subjectivity into the strands of men's stories.
	www.cc.nctu.edu.tw /~pcfeng/CALF/ch1.htm (7400 words)

	Woman warrior found in Iranian tomb - Science - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		DNA tests on the 2,000-year-old bones of a sword-wielding Iranian warrior have revealed the broad-framed skeleton belonged to a woman, an archaeologist working in the northwestern city of Tabriz said Saturday.
		“Despite earlier comments that the warrior was a man because of the metal sword, DNA tests showed the skeleton inside the tomb belonged to a female warrior,” Alireza Hojabri-Nobari told the Hambastegi newspaper.
		He added that the tomb, which had all the trappings of a warrior’s final resting place, was one of 109 and that DNA tests were being carried out on the other skeletons.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6661426 (265 words)

	The Woman Warrior: Maxine Hong Kingston's Girlhood Among Ghosts
		The most interesting part of this autobiography, however, comes in the form of Kingston's mother's "talk-story." The older woman is constantly telling stories from the Old World and bringing Chinese folklore into her life in America.
		Thus, she is forever sighting ghosts: taxi ghosts, newspaper boy ghosts, government ghosts, etc. As a child, she seemed to be alternately fascinated by her mother's stories and embarrassed by her ignorance and concrete ties to the traditions of her past.
		the woman warrior: memoirs of a girlhood among gho...
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/classic_literature/11907 (582 words)

	Mulan, the Chinese Woman Warrior
		Fa Mulan: The Story of a Woman Warrior, written by Robert San Souci, is the retelling of the original Chinese poem that inspired the Disney movie.
		She said I would grow up to be a wife and a slave, but she taught me the song of the warrior woman, Fa Mu Lan.
		The Warrior Woman: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts.
	www.selu.edu /Academics/Faculty/elejeune/mulan.htm (1370 words)

	Free Essay Analysis of Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
		In Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston tells the story of her aunt’s suicide and how it influenced Kingston’s life.
		In Woman Warrior Kingston’s mother told her the story of her fathers sister who had a child out of wedlock, when Kingston became sexually “of age” in her mother’s eyes.
		Just like a white ghost lost in a dark night, Maxine Hong Kingston in her book Woman Warrior displayed the darkness of adultery and the light of being a warrior: a woman warrior.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=30118 (771 words)

	The Woman Warrior (John's Book Pages) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Woman Warrior is Kingston's memoir about growing up caught between two worlds: one was a small image of rural pre-communist China created by her immigrant family and their neighbors in San Francisco; the other was America, a world filled with ghosts, or non-Chinese.
		Not surprisingly, the Chinese world was usually the more substantial one, the setting for her day-to-day life and the subject of a hundred frightening stories that her mother told about ghosts and monsters, about how girl-children are worthless, and about brutal retribution for adultery by villagers.
		The Woman Warrior is a good book, but an angry one: Kingston grew up not being fully accepted in either of her worlds.
	books.regehr.org /reviews/womanwarrior.html (147 words)

	Maxine Hong Kingston
		I think that she is using the story of the woman warrior as a metaphor for her struggles in the United States, particularly her battle to establish an identity" (Hundley 11/20/96).
		This precedes the reader's following of a girl up into the mountains, where she is taught to be a woman warrior only to have Kingston finish off by conveying memories of her years at Berkeley during the Vietnam conflict.
		She does not write, 'The warrior woman did this or that.' Instead, it is as if the warrior woman is speaking to the reader herself.
	www.uncp.edu /home/canada/work/canam/kingston.htm (2338 words)

	Black Warrior Woman - FSFwiki
		For instance, a female warrior character may be described as Black or African in order to make her appear even more extreme than a female warrior, relying on stereotyped views of Africans and Black people as primitive, violent, highly athleticized, and so on.
		Likewise, an African or Black character may be turned into more of a warrior woman figure, again out of (or playing on) the sense that Black people are inherently violent or physically strong.
		On the other hand, a kick-ass woman of color is to be welcomed in a very friendly fashion.
	wiki.feministsf.net /index.php?title=Black_Warrior_Woman (450 words)

	Buy The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston - Shop Online
		While the perspective and ideas of this novel are ones rarely seen in modern day literature, Maxine Hong Kingston fails to captivate a reader in a way that one would expect from a novel dealing with the difficulties of not only being a minority in the U.S., but for simply being female.
		Kingston combines the use of allegory, fantasy, and real life elements of her childhood to explore the social status of Chinese American women from the 1940s to the present in The Woman Warrior.
		While at first all of her stories may seem random, they all connect to Kingston's point of view as to how not just being a minority but also being a female made life difficult for her in both cultures.
	www.mircscripts.com /shop/0679721886/The_Woman_Warrior_Memoirs_of_a_Girlhood_Among_Ghosts.html (318 words)

	The Woman Warrior: Maxine Hong Kingston's Girlhood Among Ghosts
		The passage osuryalayaya is about the no name woman of the first chapter of The Woman Warrior.
		And in the passage there is a question which I found it very interesting, which is “is it right that Brave orchid, tells the story in traditional thinking of way and shdoesn’t’t give a clear ending so the author has to build her interpretation herself of her aunt’s story?”
		I agreed that the Brave orchid is telliMaxineine her aunt’s story in a very traditional way, as the author’s mother is a tradition Chinese woman.
	www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/classic_literature/17064 (675 words)

	Pottery and Minor art Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It was found at Thespiae in Boeotia and it is the work of "Pan painter".
		It bears the representation of a farewell to a warrior, painted by the "Achilles painter".
		This Attic crater bears the representation of the so-called "Erotostasia", with a young woman weighing Eros and Anteros.
	www.culture.gr /2/21/214/21405m/e21405m3.html (398 words)

	Sources of the Woman Warrior myth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Xena (I confess I have a soft spot for her) is but the latest in a long line of magnificent Amazon warriors.
		Of the resulting offspring they would keep only the girls, packing the boys off to live with their fathers - or, in some versions of the story, laming or killing them - so that they would not turn against their mothers.
		That's the core myth, and since it was created the Amazons have had many incarnations, from Penthesilea, slain by Achilles at the Trojan War through to Xena Warrior princess, zapping the baddies with her chum Gabrielle on our TVs today.
	www.womanwarrior.co.uk /page1.html (262 words)

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