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Back To China Woman Warrior
1,431 wordsBy the middle of this century, Chinese women had been playing a subservient role for more than 2000 years. In a woman's lifetime, she was supposed to obey her father when she was a girl, obey her husband when she got married, and obey her son when her husband died. She had no right to inherit family property and was not even allowed to keep her own name after marriage; she was addressed as her husband's wife or her child's mother. In addition, women were deprived of the right of education, and i...
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Maxine Hong Kingston Brave Orchid
1,009 wordsIn The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston, captures readers with her own interpretation of what it was like to grow up as a female Chinese American. As a little girl, she came to America with her family. She shows us how difficult it was to fit into two different societies. In the Chinese society the woman were taught to be silent. "The other Chinese girls did not talk either, so I knew the silence had to do with being a Chines girl" (Kinston, 166). However, In America, Freedom of Speech is ...
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Maxine Hong Kingston Essay Titled
4,348 words... Ao's story Kingston embeds a double-edged criticism of Chinese sexism and American racism. By highlighting Tang Ao's suffering in his state ofeffeminization, Kingston created a feminist critique of Chinese sexist practices and an allegory of the emasculation of the Chinese immigrants in America. By opening the book with Tan Aos story Kingston underlines her two main goals in China Men: to retrieve the Chinese past and to reexamine American history. The narrator of China Men identifies hersel...
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Maxine Hong Kingston Fa Mu Lan
4,500 wordsNational Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan See also the Kingston entry in DLB Yearbook: 1980. BOOKS: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (New York: Knopf, 1976; London: John Lane, 1977); China Men (New York: Knopf, 1980); Hawaii One Summer: 1978 (San Francisco: Meadow Press, 1987); Through the Black Curtain (Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California, 1987); Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (New York: Knopf, 1989). OTHER: "Cultural Mis-readings by American ...
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Analysis Of Woman Warrior By Maxine Hong Kingston
553 wordsIn Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston tells the story of her aunts suicide and how it influenced Kingston's life. In Woman Warrior Kingston's mother told her the story of her fathers sister who had a child out of wedlock, when Kingston became sexually of age in her mothers eyes. The story took place in China, presumably in the first half of the Twentieth Century, where women were heavily subjugated due to their sex. From the aunts story, Kingston got the idea that women in Chinese society were ...
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Brave Orchid Woman Warrior
1,167 wordsThe Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston, illustrates the story of a girl trapped between the culture of her surroundings and the traditions her mother forces upon her. The collection of memoirs is non-linear because Kingston goes back and forth between childhood and adulthood, instead of beginning as a child and proceeding through her adulthood into middle age. Kingston acts as the character-narrator in each section, and all the sections together build the total plot. Kingston writes about he...
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Fa Mu Lan Woman Warrior
735 wordsThe Woman Warrior The most important theme that really stood out to me was the talk stories. The whole book mainly deals with the talk stories. The second theme that I felt that had a major impact in this book was ghost. Ghosts have an impact because the stories that are told about them that affect the kids resulting in their isolation from society. These themes are very important in The Woman Warrior because they help the narrator's life and unite the stories of the book. Talk stories to me, se...
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Maxine Hong Kingston Joy Luck Club
1,420 wordsThe idea of Destiny in The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, and The Natural by Bernard Malamud The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston reflects on the fate on women using multicultural aspect. The women in China were regarded as substandard to men, and were valued in terms of their service, obedience, and the ability to give birth to boys. Chinese culture and religion inspire Chinese men to believe in social meaninglessness of women and this allows Chinese f...
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Fa Mu Lan Brave Orchid
623 wordsIn her autobiography, The Woman Warrior, Maxine talks-story about how she grew up surrounded by the Chinese culture but went to American schools. How her mother told her stories of herself as a shaman and of Fa Mu Lan when Maxine brought home good grades. How she was put down by the Chinese sexism and rebelled from it. This is the story of Maxine? s search for a compromise between the American culture and the Chinese culture and how she eventually found a balance between the two cultures. When M...
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Back To China Woman Warrior
1,424 wordsBy the middle of this century, Chinese women had been playing a subservient role for more than 2000 years. In a womans lifetime, she was supposed to obey her father when she was a girl, obey her husband when she got married, and obey her son when her husband died. She had no right to inherit family property and was not even allowed to keep her own name after marriage; she was addressed as her husbands wife or her childs mother. In addition, women were deprived of the right of education, and it w...
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Maxine Hong Kingston Woman Warrior
518 wordsComplexions of a Mother-Complex Often in literature there exist characters that personify certain archetypes, or in other words exhibit a certain body of universally observable traits. C. G. Jung in his development of the theory of archetypes sets forth the idea of a mother archetype. Jung describes the mother archetype as being the symbols or qualities often used, specifically as it pertains to literature, in describing a mother, or some other mothering entity. This archetype, according to Jung...
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Song Of Solomon Toni Morrison
1,418 wordsLiterature is bound by threads of themes that transcend all barriers of race, religion, epoch, and culture. Archetypal ideas of death, freedom, self-realization, good, and evil are utilized throughout most literary text. It is especially evident in The Song of Solomon and Beloved By Morrison, The Woman Warrior by Kingston, The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne and The Awakening by Chopin, that religion and culture are an imperative part of society. Religious and cultural taboos are viewed as a set of ...
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Woman Warrior Gender Roles
10,450 wordsWARRING GENDER In the autobiography The Woman Warrior, Maxine Kingston struggles with her identity which reflects her gender ideas. Maxine Kingston wants to show the audience that she is a woman warrior. She shows this in many ways by telling stories which reflect her personality or in her mind, her gender. Today woman who are proud of their gender are feminists. Feminists seek equal economic rights, support reproductive rights, including the right to abortion; citizen traditional definition of ...
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Fa Mu Lan Brave Orchid
1,244 wordsWoman Warrior Food strengthens us, without it we are weak. Eating has always been an important factor with families living in poor conditions. Often, those who could not help to produce more food are considered inferior or unworthy to eat. Maxine Hong Kingston? s The Woman Warrior is no exception, due to the relation it creates between eating and the strength of people. This is shown through the tale of Fa-Mu-Lan, the story of the eaters, and the references to the fellow relatives left in China....
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Maxine Hong Kingston Woman Warrior
2,780 wordsMaxine Hong Kingston creates a self as a Chinese-American woman through models of selfhood in The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. She does this by writing stories and rewriting myths that identify parts of her self. The story of the? No Name Woman? shows Kingston? s fears of being forgotten and her feminist views. The rewritten vision of Fa MuLan is a story that Kingston identifies with as a Chinese-American woman. She tells about her mother to show how they are the same in so...
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Maxine Hong Kingston Fa Mu Lan
9,191 wordsMaxine Hong Kingston (27 October 1940 -) Pin-chia Feng National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan See also the Kingston entry in DLB Yearbook: 1980. BOOKS: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (New York: Knopf, 1976; London: John Lane, 1977); China Men (New York: Knopf, 1980); Hawaii One Summer: 1978 (San Francisco: Meadow Press, 1987); Through the Black Curtain (Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California, 1987); Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (New York: K...
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Fa Mu Lan Book And The Movie
1,192 wordsMulan As The Woman Warrior Many movies have gotten their theme or content from books and novels. One of them being the story of Mulan, which originates from the story of a Chinese girl who grows into a women warrior. In my reading of The Woman Warrior, there is a tale of a warrior who has the name Fa Mu Lan. The mother tells the story of Fa Mu Lan to her children, one child stating Instantly, I remembered that as a child, I had followed my mother about the house, the two of us singing about how ...
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