This paper discusses the relationships made between ghost figures and their living relatives within Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts and Toni Morrison’s Beloved. In this paper I argue that a specific female identity and agency is represented in these texts through figurative language and symbolization of ghosts and the themes of ghost figures and their relationships to living relatives within these narratives. Through textual analysis of these literary elements, I argue that those scholars interested in postcolonial narratives, particularly those interested in subalternity and representation can gain knowledge of how the subaltern, especially the female subaltern, can claim their own identity and agency among dominant groups in the U.S.