Frank Chin argued that this genre was a “literary descendant of the confession” and does not exist in Chinese literature. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this genre of books like Le Ly Hayslip’s When Heaven and Earth Changed Places. Contemporary books in this genre include I Am Malala and Dreams from My Father.
ANSWER: autobiography [accept word forms such as autobiographical writing; accept memoirs; prompt on biography]
[10h] In a letter to Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston admitted that her publisher threatened to turn this 1976 book in which her mother is represented by the lady scholar Brave Orchid into a more traditional memoir.
ANSWER: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
[10m] Kingston imagines herself as Fa Mu Lan training on a mountain filled with these animals in the second chapter of The Woman Warrior. Amy Chua described her strict parenting in a 2011 “Battle Hymn” titled for this animal.
ANSWER: tiger [accept White Tigers or Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother; accept tiger mother or tiger mom or tiger parenting]
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