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

今天，看完女勇士。 这本书让我两度哭泣。第一次是木兰来到长城，脸贴在孟姜女曾寻夫不得而哭泣过的城墙上潸然泪下的时候。她仍没有找到她弟弟。我顿时感到一阵深情和委屈。大历史对个人命运的强奸。 第二次是今早，看到月兰回到洛杉矶女儿家之后，慢慢疯掉。又是一个中国传统...  

哎…为了写作业看的这本书我把作业放上来造福以后也许会写这个相关作业的人当参考吧……有错误就别管我了下面指出下免得误导群众吧咳咳_(:з」∠)_ 关于The Woman Warrior 和Obasan两本书的 The Great Struggle 　　 Since ancient times, the struggle of people never s...  

In The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, Maxine Hong Kingston extensively uses Chinese folklore to move along her narrative. Her use of folklore is two-sided: On one hand, she uses real folklore from Chinese culture, giving creditability to...  

用户评价

难道是美国华裔文学数量比较少？感觉不过如此啊，还是说题材会限制写作水平，读起来很吃力，不知道老外读是什么感受????

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。

not sure i like her too obvious femenist conscious, though all symptoms about chinese are unmistakenly true, which is very uncomfortably acheing to admit being a chinese myself. the last two chap is bit denument compared to the first three. But the novel fell short of my expectation on the whole.

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。