The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts
Author: Maxine Hong Kingston
Paperback: 209 pages
Publisher: Vintage Books; Vintage International Ed edition (23 April 1989)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0679721886
ISBN-13: 978-0679721888
Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 1.5 x 20.3 cm
內容簡介
In her award-winning book The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston created an entirely new form--an exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and intersecting identities--immigrant, female, Chinese, American.
As a girl, Kingston lives in two confounding worlds: the California to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother's "talk stories." The fierce and wily women warriors of her mother's tales clash jarringly with the harsh reality of female oppression out of which they come.
Kingston's sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own. A warrior of words, she forges fractured myths and memories into an incandescent whole, achieving a new understanding of her family's past and her own present.
作者簡介
Maxine Hong Kingston is the daughter of Chinese immigrants who operated a gambling house in the 1940s, when Maxine was born, and then a laundry where Kingston and her brothers and sisters toiled long hours.
Kingston graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1962 from the University of California at Berkeley, and, in the same year, married actor Earll Kingston, whom she had met in an English course. The couple has one son, Joseph, who was born in 1963.
They were active in antiwar activities in Berkeley, but in 1967 the Kingstons headed for Japan to escape the increasing violence and drugs of the antiwar movement. They settled instead in Hawai'i, where Kingston took various teaching posts.
They returned to California seventeen years later, and Kingston resumed teaching writing at the University of California, Berkeley.
While in Hawai'i, Kingston wrote her first two books. The Woman Warrior, her first book, was published in 1976 and won the National Book Critics Circle Award, making her a literary celebrity at age thirty-six. Her second book, China Men, earned the National Book Award. Still today, both books are widely taught in literature and other classes.
Kingston has earned additional awards, including the PEN West Award for Fiction for Tripmaster Monkey, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, and the National Humanities Medal, which was conferred by President Clinton, as well as the title "Living Treasure of Hawai'i" bestowed by a Honolulu Buddhist church. Her most recent books include a collection of essays, Hawai'i One Summer, and latest novel, The Fifth Book of Peace. Kingston is currently Senior Lecturer Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley.
這本書的封麵設計簡直是一場視覺盛宴,色彩的運用大膽而富有張力,那種強烈的對比感一下子就抓住瞭我的眼球。拿到手裏的時候,那種厚重感和紙張的質感都讓人覺得這是一本值得細細品味的佳作。雖然我還沒完全沉浸在故事裏,但光是翻閱目錄和扉頁,就能感受到作者在排版和設計上的用心良苦。特彆是作者的名字,那種字體選擇和布局,透著一股不容置疑的藝術氣息。有時候,一本好書的開端就從觸覺和視覺上完成瞭對讀者的第一重篩選,而這本書無疑是成功通過瞭。我尤其喜歡它在章節分隔處的那些小小的插圖或符號,雖然簡單,卻透露齣一種深層的文化符號意味,讓人忍不住去猜測它們背後隱藏的含義,這為接下來的閱讀體驗埋下瞭極佳的伏筆。可以說,從物理層麵上看,它已經是一件令人愉悅的藏品瞭。
評分這本書在探討的主題上展現瞭極大的廣度和深度,它不僅僅是在講述一個故事,更像是在挖掘一種文化的根源和個體的掙紮。我能感受到作者對於身份認同、對於傳統與現代衝突的深刻洞察力,這些宏大而沉重的主題,她處理得既細膩又充滿力量,沒有絲毫的說教意味。每一個角色,即使是曇花一現的配角,似乎都有自己完整的、值得被尊重的內心世界和生活軌跡。通過這些人物的命運交織,我們得以窺見一個更加廣闊的人類境遇,那份對於“我是誰”、“我來自哪裏”的永恒追問,在字裏行間得到瞭極其有力的迴響。這讓我在閱讀過程中,不時地會聯係到自己的經曆和周遭的世界,産生強烈的共鳴和反思。
評分從結構上來看,這本書的構建方式著實令人稱奇。它並非采用那種綫性的、一闆一眼的敘事結構,而是更像是一張精心編織的網,將不同的時間綫索、不同的視角巧妙地編織在一起。這種跳躍性在初接觸時可能會帶來一點挑戰,需要讀者集中全部注意力去跟上作者的思路,但一旦你找到瞭那個連接點,那種豁然開朗的體驗是無與倫比的。你會開始欣賞這種非傳統的安排,明白為什麼作者要選擇以這種方式來呈現她想要錶達的主題。這種結構上的復雜性,反而增強瞭作品的深度和耐讀性,它鼓勵你去反復咀嚼,去探尋那些隱藏在錶層敘事之下的更深層次的關聯。它不是那種讀完就丟在一邊的快餐文學,而是需要被納入書架,時不時拿齣來重溫和思考的經典。
評分這本書的語言風格是一種非常獨特的體驗,它不像某些當代小說那樣追求華麗辭藻的堆砌,反而有一種近乎古老的、直抵人心的力量。初讀時,你會感覺自己像是被一股強勁的河流裹挾著嚮前,文字的節奏感把握得恰到好處,時而急促如鼓點,時而舒緩如嘆息。我發現作者似乎非常擅長使用那種意象化的錶達,一個簡單的場景,經過她的筆觸描繪,立刻就變得飽滿而富有層次感,讓人仿佛身臨其境,呼吸都能跟著文字的起伏而變化。這種敘事能力,真不是一般的作傢能達到的,它要求讀者不僅是用眼睛看文字,更要用心去感受那些字裏行間流淌的情感和曆史的重量。這種沉浸式的閱讀感,讓我常常在讀完一段話後,不得不停下來,深吸一口氣,整理一下被文字衝擊過後的思緒。
評分總的來說,這本書帶給我的感覺是一種精神上的洗禮。它不是那種能讓你輕鬆度過一個下午的讀物,相反,它要求你投入時間、投入情感,甚至需要你付齣一些精神上的努力去消化它所蘊含的巨大信息量和復雜情感。但所有的付齣都是值得的,因為這本書的迴報是豐厚的——它拓寬瞭我的視野,挑戰瞭我原有的認知框架。讀完之後,我發現自己看待某些事物的方式似乎發生瞭一些微妙而本質的轉變,這種潛移默化的影響,纔是真正偉大文學作品的價值所在。它留下的餘韻悠長,仿佛在你的腦海中種下瞭一顆種子,隨著時間的推移,會慢慢生根發芽,展現齣新的理解。這絕對是一次令人難忘的閱讀旅程。
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