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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is a book written by Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1976. The book blends autobiography with old Chinese folktales. The Woman Warrior won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of TIME magazine's top nonfiction books of the ...
Lozen (c. 1840 – June 17, 1889) was a warrior and prophet of the Chihenne Chiricahua Apache.She was the sister of Victorio, a prominent chief.Born into the Chihenne band during the 1840s, Lozen was, according to legends, able to use her powers in battle to learn the movements of the enemy. [1]
Carlos Castaneda (December 25, 1925 [nb 1] – April 27, 1998) was an American anthropologist and writer. Starting in 1968, Castaneda published a series of books that describe a training in shamanism that he received under the tutelage of a Yaqui "Man of Knowledge" named don Juan Matus. While Castaneda's work was accepted as factual by many ...
Her book presents a picture of a United States still changing in its reciprocal influence with China. [3] At the same time, the title reflects a deliberate rejection of American racism against the Chinese : whereas the term " Chinaman " was a common slur (such as in John Chinaman ), the Chinese referred to themselves as the "China Men" of the ...
The Woman Who Rides Like a Man is a fantasy novel by Tamora Pierce, the third in a series of four books, The Song of the Lioness. [1] It details the knighthood of Alanna of Trebond as she lives in the Bazhir desert after becoming a knight.
she was once from japan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.7.221.146 17:18, 15 October 2007 (UTC) This book is not a novel Benastan 10:59, 20 March 2008 (UTC) Changed "However, her Chinese, or Asian audience has expressed some harsh criitique of her collection." to "some Asian readers."
[1]: 269 Professor Sherrie Inness in Tough Girls: Women Warriors and Wonder Women in Popular Culture [32] and Frances Early and Kathleen Kennedy in Athena's Daughters: Television's New Women Warriors, [33] for example, focus on figures such as Xena, from the television series Xena: Warrior Princess or Buffy Summers from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Shaman: A Novel of the Ice Age is a 2013 novel by Kim Stanley Robinson. Set during the Ice Age , it tells the story of a trainee shaman , from a tribe of European early modern humans , who must learn the skills to survive and to aid his people.