"Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America" (Kingston 5)
In The Woman Warrior, Kingston recalls her struggle to find meaning as a child of Chinese emigrants. She recounts stories from multiple perspectives, trying to make sense of her dual heritage. On one hand, she must grow past her parent's culture's devaluation of women, and on the other, she must fulfill her desire to understand her roots.
Placement Rationale: Kingston struggles to unify her American upbringing and Asian heritage, making The Woman Warrior a "New Ways of Being" text. However, Kingston also struggles with the traditions of secrecy and female subjugation that she reads from Chinese culture, making this an "Erasure and Violation" text.
