The warring voices of the mother: maxine Hong Kingston's tale of the mother-daughter story
Postmodern feminist theories of identity have warned against the use of general categories of gender in favour of more complexly structured conceptions in which gender is but one relevant strand among others such as class, ethnicity or race. Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior is a beautiful ve...
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1994
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| description | Postmodern feminist theories of identity have warned against the use of general categories of gender in favour of more complexly structured conceptions in which gender is but one relevant strand among others such as class, ethnicity or race. Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior is a beautiful version of the daughter's growth away from the omnipotent and powerless mother within the patriarchal family, a well known female plot, or subplot, in Western literature. This paper explores the ambivalence of the mother's voice carrying the fantasies and deceptions of feminine power, autonomy and authority. The powerfully compelling female images the mother builds through her story-telling are eventually contradicted either by the story itself or the bare facts of life, revealing the mother's uneasy collusion with patriarchy while voicing ways of overcoming it. I wish to point out how the novel shows that for all the nuances and idiosyncrasies allowed by the Chinese familiar BACKGROUND and the childhood in a working class immigrant milieu, gender traits socially constructed in a relational matrix loom the largest in the constitution of the girl's subjectivity. |
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| spelling | dialnet-ART00000045742026-10-06The warring voices of the mother: maxine Hong Kingston's tale of the mother-daughter storyConcha Muñoz, Angeles de laPostmodern feminist theories of identity have warned against the use of general categories of gender in favour of more complexly structured conceptions in which gender is but one relevant strand among others such as class, ethnicity or race. Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior is a beautiful version of the daughter's growth away from the omnipotent and powerless mother within the patriarchal family, a well known female plot, or subplot, in Western literature. This paper explores the ambivalence of the mother's voice carrying the fantasies and deceptions of feminine power, autonomy and authority. The powerfully compelling female images the mother builds through her story-telling are eventually contradicted either by the story itself or the bare facts of life, revealing the mother's uneasy collusion with patriarchy while voicing ways of overcoming it. I wish to point out how the novel shows that for all the nuances and idiosyncrasies allowed by the Chinese familiar BACKGROUND and the childhood in a working class immigrant milieu, gender traits socially constructed in a relational matrix loom the largest in the constitution of the girl's subjectivity.Universidad de Zaragoza: Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana1994text (article)application/pdfhttps://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=193714(Revista) ISSN 1137-6368(Revista) ISSN 2386-4834Miscelánea: A journal of english and american studies, ISSN 2386-4834, Nº 15, 1994, pags. 111-124spaLICENCIA DE USO: Los documentos a texto completo incluidos en Dialnet son de acceso libre y propiedad de sus autores y/o editores. Por tanto, cualquier acto de reproducción, distribución, comunicación pública y/o transformación total o parcial requiere el consentimiento expreso y escrito de aquéllos. Cualquier enlace al texto completo de estos documentos deberá hacerse a través de la URL oficial de éstos en Dialnet. Más información: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/info/derechosOAI | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS STATEMENT: Full text documents hosted by Dialnet are protected by copyright and/or related rights. This digital object is accessible without charge, but its use is subject to the licensing conditions set by its authors or editors. Unless expressly stated otherwise in the licensing conditions, you are free to linking, browsing, printing and making a copy for your own personal purposes. All other acts of reproduction and communication to the public are subject to the licensing conditions expressed by editors and authors and require consent from them. Any link to this document should be made using its official URL in Dialnet. More info: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/info/derechosOAI |
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