Finding a Way. Maxine Kingston's memoir, The Woman Warrior describes the struggles of a Chinese-American woman growing up as she attempts to find a balance between two cultures and to find her own identity within them. Kingston's novel abounds with imagery, from the ghosts and barbarians, to the different colors (black, white, and red). Every “talk-story” has a place and meaning and every character is introduced in a way to clarify Kingston's motives for writing. …showed first 75 words of 1574 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1574 total…this memoir who she is. She may not feel as if she is a part of the American culture and she may still find many of its aspects to be confusing and strange. However, she is able to incorporate her own traditional culture with the strange and “barbaric” America in which she lives. She finds her identity to be a mixture of cultures, as a Chinese-American woman- a woman warrior. And, “It translated well,” (p.209).