AS AM 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Mongrel, Roland Barthes, Joan Didion
Document Summary
Published in 1975, 18 years after okada"s no-no boy. Social epiphany - when a writer discovers something new about him or herself through writing. Assassinations: john f. kennedy & martin luther king. Bulosan and okada"s texts are based on social and political epiphany, culminating in. Chin"s articulation of asian american literature as a category. You must not tell anyone, my mother said, what i"m about to tell you. In china your father had a sister who killed herself. Both mother and maxine have a voice in this first line. Do not explain what i"m about to tell you from the mother. Embedded in this line is the breaking of that promise. Mother says don"t tell anybody, but the daughter tells everybody. The voice: kingston and the mother assert themselves. Mother tells daughter that her father"s sister committed suicide because she is finally entering young womanhood. Woolf"s a room of one"s own as an inspiration and point of departure.
