AS AM 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Maxine Hong Kingston, Asian American Literature, House Of Keys
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Bulosan and okada"s texts are based on social and political epiphany, culminating in. Chin"s articulation of asian american literature as a category. First paragraph - in china, your father had a sister you must not tell my mother what i have said what i"m about to tell you . Don"t say a single word to anyone -> breaking a promise with her mother. Initiates you into a secret that you are not supposed to tell. Marks a voice - voice of the mother and the young maxine. The voice: kingston and the mother assert themselves. Silence (of asian american women) vs. voice (of males) -> irony. Woolf"s a room of one"s own as inspiration and point of departure. What is chinese tradition and what is the movies? (5-6) She engages with the different people in terms of stories -> reconstruct ourselves. Several larger thematic points in no name woman .
