scholarly journals Reconstructing the Past: Reproduction of Trauma in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Qiong He
Keyword(s):  
Chinese American ◽  
Trauma Theory ◽  
Cognitive Systems ◽  
American Women ◽  
Woman Warrior ◽  
Traumatic Memories ◽  
The Past ◽  
Chinese American Women ◽  
The Woman Warrior

This article interprets The Woman Warrior as reproduction and re-composition of unspeakable traumatic memories and experience of Chinese-American women who live in an uncanny world and in diasporic condition. Drawing on trauma theory, this article studies the effects of various traumas upon the psychology of characters and examines how Kingston utilizes intertextuality as a way of demonstrating traumatic repetition and promoting healing. Intertextually revising the Chinese legend enables characters to conflate the unspeakable experience into their cognitive systems and to reconstruct a past free from trauma.

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

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Zhao Qing
Keyword(s):  
Maxine Hong Kingston ◽  
Chinese American ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Trauma Theory ◽  
Woman Warrior ◽  
American Writer ◽  
The Woman Warrior ◽  
Chinese American Immigrants

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”.

Maxine Hong Kingston’s Transpacific Imagination

2019 ◽  
pp. 172-187
Author(s):  
Yuan Shu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Chinese American ◽  
Woman Warrior ◽  
Us Imperialism ◽  
The Woman Warrior ◽  
Critical Process ◽  
Narrative Role ◽  
Native Informant

In juxtaposing The Fifth Book of Peace with The Woman Warrior, this essay argues that Kingston has moved away from the narrative role as a native informant and presents a new multicultural United States by inventing a Chinese American epistemology and intervening in US imperialism around the globe. Such a move substantiates Mignolo’s theory of “global decolonial thinking,” a critical process that reclaims non-Western notions of humanity and epistemology.

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