Abstract

The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston is a novel whose richness offers scores of interpretations among which the one we propose for discussion in our paper and which is announced in the title is vital for the understanding of the spirit of the author, narrator and story altogether. The movement from the Asian (communist) space, community and code to the American (capitalist) one, from tradition to novelty, from nature to civilization, from the condition of the poor to the one of the well-off, from the universe of the community to the one of the family, from mothers to daughters, from first wife to second wife, from sanity to insanity and ultimately the movement from biography to fiction renders the narrator’s and the narration’s  surpassing of borders/margins and the mergings of attitudes, feelings and techniques. This creates a fabulous (with both meanings of the word) writing keeping the reader in a trance and the analyst in an ecstasy of the possibilities open to interpretation.