No Name Woman

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소설의 작가와 인물소개 줄거리 주제 등을 다루고 있으며 문학적으로 중요한 요소 또한 다루고 있습니다. 유익한 자료가 될 것입니다.

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Theme & Analysis
- The Role of Women in Chinese Society
Living as Chinese-American : torn identity

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Maxine Hong Kingston
Born in 1940, Stockton, California.
The Woman Warrior (1976)
- Awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.
a Chinese American author and Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Wrote three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese immigrants living in the United States.

Kingston’s mother said to Kingston that she once had an aunt who killed herself with her newborn baby by jumping into the family well. The woman`s husband had left the country years before, so the villagers knew that the aunt was pregnant an illegitimate baby. The night that the baby was born, the villagers raided and destroyed the family’s house, and the woman gave birth in a pigsty. the baby was a girl and aunt realized how limited the infant`s prospects are, she took the baby and plugging up the well, drowning them both. The woman had brought such disgrace upon her family that her family now pretends she never existed.

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