Talking-Story in Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

What Are You Talking-Story About?
Maxine Hong Kingston is arguably one of today's most outspoken contemporary feminist writers. However, when she was initially thrown into an American lifestyle by her parents, she faced enormous difficulties in cultural divergence, leaving her to question everything she has ever learned. Her memoirs, The Woman Warrior, celebrate this victorious journey from a once silenced Chinese immigrant to a liberated Chinese-American young woman. The most integral part of this coming of age is the constant storytelling or talk-story by her mother, Brave Orchid, whi…