Song of Chinese American Females- A Traumatic Reading of The Woman Warrior

Maxine Hong Kingston is a famous Chinese American writer, who is adept at interpreting the living conditions of Chinese American immigrants by making vivid and profound description. She writes several influential novels and the publication of her masterpiece The Woman Warrior makes her immediately renowned in the American literary circle. This paper is going to apply trauma theory to describe the Chinese females’ miserable fates, to further explore the causes of their trauma, and to focus on how they treat trauma, overcome trauma and become “woman warriors”.

Prilog razlikovanju američkih etničkih književnosti

Povod ovog rada autorova je prosudba da se u rasprostranjenoj uporabi pojma multikulturalizam, naročito pri imenovanju jednog korpusa tekstova suvremene američke književnosti, nedovoljno uzimaju u obzir razlike koje problematiziraju olaka uopćavanja. Kao prilog razlikovanju ove, naizgled homogene, pojave analiziraju se različiti načini kako nekoliko romana etničkih pisaca zapisuju odnos u ovim tekstovima predočenih svijesti i američke prostornosti, ono što autor nazivlje prostornim obzorjem. Ponuđena analiza i argumentacija temelje se na iščitavanju djela irsko-američkog romansijera Williama Kennedya, kinesko-američke spisateljice Maxine Hong Kingston i Chicano romansijera Rudolfa Anaye. Suprotstavljajući različite načine kako se prostorno obzorje očituje u dotičnim tekstovima dolazi se do zaključka da je u slučaju Kennedya i Kingston razlika količinske naravi dok se u slučaju Chicano tekstova prostorno obzorje pojavljuje na način koji čini upitnim uporabu etničkog naziva kad je riječ o ovoj skupini i njihovom književnom izričaju.

Bildungsroman Hermeneutics in the Post–Civil Rights Era

This essay defines the problem of bildungsroman hermeneutics for literary criticism and social policy in the post–civil rights era. Examining critical responses to Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street, it argues that the traditional bildungsroman exerts a powerful hold on interpretations of minority mobility. Bildungsroman hermeneutics understands social relations as organized around individual development. This model undermines the collective politics many critics sense in Cisneros’s text and obscures her revisions of the genre. Furthermore, bildungsroman hermeneutics intersects with neoconservative arguments that helped to roll back civil rights reforms and stymie government interventions. To address the inequalities enduring after civil rights we must circumvent an individual-centered template that has shaped plots of narrative and social change. Part of a broader effort to decenter the bildungsroman (including the work of Maxine Hong Kingston and Gloria Naylor), Cisneros’s text can help us do so, if we can learn to read it otherwise.

Other Humanities

Examining the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Chapter One tracks how, in the final years of the Cold War, authors such as Ernest Gaines and Maxine Hong Kingston re-membered transnational forms of Afro-Asian solidarity that laid claim to the right to self determination, as well as social and economic rights.

Eastern and Western Woman Warriors: Through the Analyses of “The Woman Warrior” by Maxine Hong Kingston and “The Ginger Tree” by Oswald Wynd

This article aims to scrutinize identity problem, through utilizing gender, cultural approaches and analyzing mother-daughter relationship. The distinctive attitudes of eastern and western societies towards woman identity bear undeniable differences, yet the existence of noticeable similarities cannot be rejected. East and West are regarded as two opposite poles; apparently modern discourse searches ultimate perspectives to investigate crossroads between these two opposite sites. Indeed, culture plays a significant part in detecting these perspectives. In this article the author makes an effort to analyze the prior cultural facets by employing literary analyses. Moreover, one of the problems that modern literary study is concerned with is mother-daughter relationship. The selected two literary works presented by this article open up an immense area for exploring the above mentioned points. Enquiring into woman identity, the article attempts to approach the question from ethnic perspectives, thus our heroes are not just ethnic minorities, but also minority women.