Woman+Warrior



Kingston’s controversial text has been both acclaimed and criticized for its handling of Chinese-American social and cultural tradition. Author Shirley Geok-lin Lim claims that Kingston “blur[s] [the] boundaries between fact and fiction, history and myth, personal story and public document, poetry and prose,” which in turn “casts doubts rightfully on attempts to present it as accurate Chinese American social history.” What assumptions do we make as readers when we designate a specific form and genre to a work? How does this feed our interpretation of both a narrator and a culture?

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