What metaphors are used in The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston?

The narrator of The Woman Warrior is uniquely positioned to dialogically question racial oppositions. She is the daughter of Chinese immigrants for whom America is temporary exile, and China home, but who nevertheless will stay in America. Her only reality is America, but it is the America of the margins (Kingston makes no bones about Stockton being a racial and economic ghetto). She goes to Chinese school and to American school. Her own undefinable position is a metaphor for the way in which ethnicity will operate: "I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.... The dragon lives in the sky, ocean, marshes, and mountains; and the mountains are also its cranium.... It breathes fire and water; and sometimes the dragon is one, sometimes many."