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concept-2284	none	Maxine Hong Kingston’s complex, multi-faceted, and paradoxical postmodernism in The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of A Girlhood Among Ghosts.	2018	22	.pdf	application/pdf	6423	270	55	Angeline Nies-Berger English When Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of A Girlhood Among Ghosts was published in 1976,1 the novel’s reception was the epitome of controversial: while some critics saw the novel as subversively feminist, swapping a hero for a heroine living her life against the currents of the Chinese patriarchy which thought having girls was a waste resources (“Better to raise geese than girls”), others, including prominent figures of Asian American literary critique, said about the work that it reinforced Chinese stereotypes and was written purely for the enjoyment of racist Western societies.2 In Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston, it is reported that she said the following of memory and contradicting stories: “I like the difference in seeing [her brothers’ and sisters’ and her points of view] because it could have been either way; one remembered it one way and one the other.	cache/concept-2284.pdf	txt/concept-2284.txt