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No Name Woman – by Maxine Hong Kingston. "You must not tell anyone," my mother said, "what I am about to tell you. In China your father had a sister who killed herself. She jumped into the family well. We say that your father has all brothers because it is as if she had never been born. "In 1924 just a few days after our village celebrated ...
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Apr 24, 2024 · Kingston also published poems, short stories, and articles. Her collection of 12 prose sketches, Hawai’i One Summer (1987), was published in a limited edition with original woodblock prints and calligraphy. Beginning in 1993 Kingston ran a series of writing and meditation workshops for veterans of various conflicts and their families.
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Kingston learns from her mother that she once had an aunt who killed herself and her newborn baby by jumping into the family well in China. The woman's husband had left the country years before, so the villagers knew that the child was illegitimate. The night that the baby was born, the villagers raided and destroyed the family house, and the woman...
Because Kingston cannot ask about her unnamed auntwho is referred to only as \"No-Name Woman\"she invents her own fantasies about why her aunt gave in to her forbidden passions. In one such scenario, her aunt is a timid woman ordered into submission by a rapist. In another, her aunt harbors a slowly blossoming passion, attempting to attract a man's...
In a particularly vivid section of the chapter, Kingston imagines the time when her aunt's family casts her aunt out. Alone, her aunt is lost in the wilderness, and when the baby comes, she resorts to giving birth in a pigsty. Kingston believes that her aunt decides to kill herself and her baby together in order to spare the child a life without fa...
Maxine Hong Kingston ( Chinese: 湯婷婷; [2] born Maxine Ting Ting Hong; [3] October 27, 1940) is an American novelist. She is a Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. [4] Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese ...
Jun 1, 2020 · Maxine Hong Kingston’s Genre-Defying Life and Work The Asian-American literary pioneer, whose writing has paved the way for many immigrants’ stories, has one last big idea. By Hua Hsu
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Aug 12, 1976 · The Woman Warrior. Maxine Hong Kingston. 3.73. 31,970 ratings2,158 reviews. A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity. Genres Memoir Nonfiction Feminism Classics China Biography School. ...more. 204 pages, Paperback. First published August 12, 1976.
