Woman Warriors Cannot Speak: A Rethink of Cultural 
Integration in The Woman Warrior

Siying Cheng

doi:10.70711/rcha.v2i7.5211

Woman Warriors Cannot Speak: A Rethink of Cultural Integration in The Woman Warrior

Siying Cheng

Abstract

Maxine Hong Kingston (1940-), the second-generation Chinese-American writer, is highly esteemed within the United States and
globally, establishing herself as one of the most influential ethnic writers in contemporary America. The Woman Warrior (1976), Kingstons
debut work, was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, elevating her to the status of a contemporary mainstream
American author. Disagreeing with her advocacy in constructing identities through cultural integration in The Woman Warrior, this thesis,
based on a close reading of the text, focuses on the keyword voice, deeply examining the narrator Maxines vocalization and its effectiveness. Furthermore, this thesis analyzes the role of the author Kingstons advocacy of cultural integration in the voices of Chinese in America
and concludes that cultural integration fails to effectively empower ethnic minorities to voice their concerns and construct their identities.

Keywords

The Woman Warrior; Maxine Hong Kingston; Voice; Cultural integration

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.70711/rcha.v2i7.5211

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