An Analysis of the Ghosts' Cultural Meaning in The Woman Warrior

The subtitle of The Woman Warrior is Memoirs of A Girlhood among Ghosts. The decoding of "ghost" from the cultural angle is the key point to comprehend this book. "Ghost" in here means Chinese traditional culture and American mainstream White culture. By the usage of the imagery of "Ghost" , Maxine Hong Kingston displays Chinese American' s bewilder ness, pain, wish under the two different cultural contexts and the hard process of the seeking of cultural identity.