The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts--Maxine Hong Kingston--intro/analysis/guide

This video is designed to help high school students with The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston, published by Vintage Books in 1975. Students might look at this AFTER they have finished reading the novel and are ready to assess the work as a whole or look at parts very carefully. In a mere 3 minutes, this video cannot say all that I wish to say, so forgive me if I skip over great bits. You may turn off the soundtrack or keep it on--I picked music that has no copyright issues. Some Discussion Questions for The Woman Warrior 1) What in the book justifies The Woman Warrior as a title? 2) Much of the book seems critical of Chinese culture, but the book also suggests that imaginative stories are promoted in that culture. Weigh the good and bad. Does the book present Chinese culture more in a positive way or more in a negative way? 3) The book is identified as a “memoirs.“ Its subtitle is “Memoirs of a Girlhoo