Interview with Maxine Hong Kingston

Male or Female: An Analysis of the Two Couples in “White Tigers” in The Woman Warrior

“…She declares in an interview: "I love that throughout Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman always says 'men and women,' 'male and female.' He's so different from other writers of his time, and even this time" [1] . She is also impressed by Virginia Woolf's Orlando, in which "Orlando can be a man, Orlando can be a woman" [1] .…”

“…He's so different from other writers of his time, and even this time" [1] . She is also impressed by Virginia Woolf's Orlando, in which "Orlando can be a man, Orlando can be a woman" [1] . And it is Virginia Woolf who puts forward the conception of androgyny, as "the founder of western feminist literary criticism" [8] .…”

“…[7] The Woman Warrior is a book focusing on women, so Maxine needs to concentrate on the antistereotype to women. Just as she states: "Quite often I feel forced to write against the stereotype" [1] . Adding masculinity to them can be her powerful weapon against those stereotypes.…”

“…Maxine Hong Kingston may be the "the most widely taught living American author" [1] . Her bestknown masterpiece, The Woman Warrior with a subtitle-"Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts", demonstrates the living state of Chinese American women and her own dilemma among a variety of "ghosts."…”

A Trickster-Like Woman: Subversive Imagining and Narrating of Social Change

“…The competitive individualistic society contributes to feelings of isolation, indifference, and at times hostility in society among its members (Hofstede, 1991). Feminist writers like Erdrich, Morrison, and Kingston have been recognized for advocating the relational orientation that values communities, shared cultures, and social harmony (Fishkin, 1991;Smith, 1997;Zagarell, 1988). Their challenge is to bring forth the relational model of human society and to make it palpable for the rest of the society to identify with.…”