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Identity Crisis
Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior presents the struggles of a Chinese-American woman growing up as she attempts to reconcile two cultures, a female
devaluing Chinese culture and influences by an American culture, while developing her own identity as a Chinese-American. U ....
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.... stories Kingston tells, she establishes her beliefs and values of the Chinese culture and contrasts them with the expectations of the American culture. The older generation, her mother, uses their native language to instill the traditional values and the idea of becoming an individual - a
“woman warrior.” However, the American culture creates a struggle in balancing these two contradicting forces of being traditional and having a sense of identity.
The first “talk-story” creates the basis of the Chinese traditional values Kingston encounters at home. This stor ....
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