<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/380a024f-b119-45a4-bc92-c1ba9281e348/666BBD64-785F-4B99-B141-07809B11FFD4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/18/AR2007061801713.html" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/18/AR2007061801713.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.washingtonpost.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/18/AR2007061801713.html"><H1>'Woman Warrior,' A Memoir That Shook the Genre</H1><H2></H2><P><FONT size="2"> <DIV id="byline">By JONATHAN YARDLEY</DIV> Tuesday, June 19, 2007; Page C01</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/18/AR2007061801713.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.washingtonpost.com/img/A08DFF44-214C-4DF4-8E09-FEAA82FA2560" alt="Maxine Hong Kingston published her memoir when feminism and multiculturalism were coming to the fore." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/18/AR2007061801713.html">Three decades ago the memoir was a relatively minor genre in American literature.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/18/AR2007061801713.html">Precisely when and why this began to change -- not to mention whether the change was for the better -- is open to debate, but a strong case can be made that the decisive moment was in 1976 with the publication of "The Woman Warrior," by Maxine Hong Kingston. It is, as was immediately recognized at the time, a work of considerable literary distinction, but it was also very much a book of its moment. In the mid-'70s two movements were gaining strength and public attention: feminism and multiculturalism. Though not written as a political tract, "The Woman Warrior" spoke to both causes with remarkable immediacy.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/18/AR2007061801713.html">Bill Moyers has reported that "The Woman Warrior" and Kingston's second memoir, "<A target="" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/related-topics.html/China?tid=informline">China</A> Men" (1980), are the most widely taught books by a living American author on college campuses today</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/666BBD64-785F-4B99-B141-07809B11FFD4/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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