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?Explain

Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior

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 (power structure) in the Chinese culture?

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