Affirmation of Cross-Cultural Identity in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior

Abstract

Maxine Hong Kingston'sThe Woman Warrioris a recounting of past for the reshaping of future. The narrative persona retells her experiences of growing up as a second generation Chinese American daughter challenging the cultural discourses that tend to exclude, silence and marginalize her. Dispelling the illusion of cultural opposition and hierarchy that sustains authoritative and essentialist moral and cultural worldviews, the narrator brings both the worlds-Chinese and American-together that shape her cross-cultural Chinese American identity.