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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
by Maxine Hong Kingston
A monumental piece in Asian American literature, The Woman Warrior playfully blends Chinese mythologies and childhood narratives to reveal the gender, class, and intergenerational conflicts that mark the Chinese-American immigrant identity. Though published in 1976, the book remains empowering for challenging the traditional stereotypes and expectations set for Chinese-American women. My favorite pieces from the collection were No Name Women and White Tigers for how they interweave truth and fantasy to produce moving depictions of intergenerational trauma in the first, and female rebellion in the latter.