Ghosts

Ghosts

Ghosts are a recurring motif in the memoir, Woman Warrior. Author, Maxine Kingston tells the story of how her mother informs her of the ghosts she encounters. Ghosts are symbolic because they serve as a contrasting idea of the identification of ghosts. Although Kingston’s mother refers to ghosts as frightening spirits that creates turbulence to humans, she also considers Americans to be ghosts. It becomes contradictory that she recognizes Americans as ghosts considering that the Chinese people living in America are the ones living with concealment. This relates to women writers through the internalization of females. Ghosts have a correlation with the way female interact in society – as they remain submissive, they are similar to the ghosts.

Donald Ung