The Woman Warrior

出版者:Vintage Books USA

作者:[美] 汤亭亭

页数:209

出版时间:2000-6

价格:CAD 15.13

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780072435191

具体描述

A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.

作者简介

Maxine Hong Kingston, (born October 27, 1940, Stockton, California, U.S.), American writer, much of whose work is rooted in her experience as a first-generation Chinese American. Maxine Hong was the eldest of six American-born children of Chinese immigrant parents. Hong’s father, a scholar, had left China in 1924 and immigrated to New York City; unable to find work as a poet or calligrapher, he took a job in a laundry. Hong’s mother had remained behind in China and joined him in the United States in 1939. Hong attended the University of California, Berkeley, as a scholarship student, graduating in 1962. At Berkeley she met aspiring actor Earll Kingston. They were married in November 1962 and had a son in 1964. The couple taught at Sunset High School in 1966–67 in Hayward, California, then moved to Hawaii, where she held a series of teaching jobs for the next 10 years. In 1976 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 her second memoir, China Men (1980), Kingston tells the story of Chinese immigration through the experiences of the men in her family. Using the narrative techniques of The Woman Warrior, she relates their stories of virtual slave labour, loneliness, and discrimination. China Men won the American Book Award for nonfiction. In Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989), the main character—Whittman Ah Sing, named after Walt Whitman—narrates a peculiarly 20th-century American odyssey; the book combines Eastern and Western literary traditions while emphasizing the Americanness of its characters. In To Be the Poet (2002), written mainly in verse, Kingston presented a rumination on elements of her own past and the acts of reading and creating poetry. The Fifth Book of Peace (2003) combines elements of fiction and memoir in the manner of a Chinese talk-story, a tradition in which elements of both the real and imagined worlds become interpolated. I Love a Broad Margin to My Life (2011) is a “memoir-in-verse.” Kingston also published poems, short stories, and articles. Her collection of 12 prose sketches, Hawai’i One Summer (1987), was published in a limited edition with original woodblock prints and calligraphy. Beginning in 1993 Kingston ran a series of writing and meditation workshops for veterans of various conflicts and their families. From these workshops came the material for Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace (2006), a collection edited by Kingston containing prose and verse on the experiences of war, domestic violence, drug abuse, and other traumatic experiences. In 2014 Kingston received the National Medal of Arts.

读后感

故事带有移民文学的特色，作者以五个故事讲述了女人要如何在社会责任与自我认知之间保持平衡。 女勇士，the women worrier是20世纪美国华裔文学的标志之一。 五个民间故事融合了传记的形式表达出来，尽管一直受到真实性的质疑，但是作为一本小说，五个故事还是很吸引人的。我最...  

《女勇士》用五个不同的故事来讲述中国女性的地位，从妈妈的口述中得知那些素未谋面的女性的命运，它向我们充分展示了传统中国父系社会里女性的卑贱与悲哀。它不仅描述了中国的社会面貌，也向我们表达了美籍华裔的心路历程，透露了他们的艰辛与不易。这不仅向世界展示了我们中...  

Maxine Hong Kingston, as one of the most significant Chinese American writers, has made great contribution to feminist movement with her literature works, among which is her masterpiece: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts. Crowned the bes...  

用户评价

I would still be young if we lived in China. 魔性。 居然有些地方被感动了。 What does your mother call him? She calls him father of me.

Read it only if you are curious what Chinese immigrants' lives in the US are like. Otherwise you would be surprised by how poorly Classical Chinese tales are tailored to serve the author's agenda. In the US, however, it is a one-time bestseller and classi

喜欢汤亭亭重构故事的能力和诡谲的想象力。她打破了自传传统的线形写作的方式，甚至看着看着还会迷失在何处是现实何处是想象的文字中。这本书外国人和中国人都容易读错，比如第二个故事并不是为了塑造一个中国式家国牵连的女勇士形象，而只是汤亭亭小时候难以融入美国社会时困惑与自救的变形。

I would still be young if we lived in China. 魔性。 居然有些地方被感动了。 What does your mother call him? She calls him father of me.

第一代移民的生活写照；第一代与第二代的关系写照；最欣赏对妈妈的描写。