Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior is the only piece of autobiographical “nonfiction” that we are reading in this course. Read section II White Tigers.
This chapter is a fantasy and serves as a foil for chapter I. In chapter I, Kingston’s aunt is killed, in chapter II, Kingston writes herself into a traditionally male myth, and she becomes a hero.
What is the point of Kingston’s fantasy? What does the reader learn about the nature of women and men’s relationship in the Chinese culture?
