The Woman Warrior (feat. Maxine Hong Kingston & Monique Truong)
AAWW Radio: New Asian American Writers & Literature - A podcast by Asian American Writers' Workshop
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In 1976, Maxine Hong Kingston published The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. A searing and subtly funny book about who gets to tell our stories, this feminist classic established themes and controversies central to Asian American literature today: what we carry from our homelands and pasts, the role of myths and family secrets, and what narratives are silenced. For the 40th anniversary of Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, we brought her together with Monique Truong, AAWW board member and the author of the best-selling novel The Book of Salt, for a wonderful conversation about spirituality, titling the Woman Warrior, and Maxine hanging out with Alice Walker in jail by the Arizona border. Watch the video for the full event here on our YouTube channel. Music by Robert Rusli & Lu Yang. http://aaww.org
