Impact of Chinese Heritage on Maxine Hong Kingstons The Woman Warrior

Impact of Chinese heritage on Maxine Hong Kingstons The adult female WarriorHaunted by the power of images? I do feel that I go into madness and chaos. Theres a journey of everything f entirelying apart, even the meaning and the order that I push aside put on nighthing by the writing. Maxine Hong KingstonIt is true that more or less dream in color, and some dream in blackness and white. Some dream in Sonic sounds, and some dream in silence. In Maxine Hong Kingstons literary works, the readers enter a soundless dream that is painted entirely in the color of blackdifferent shades and blocks of pigments mixing and clashing with each other, theory up infinite possibilities for twain beautiful if frightening nightmares and impossible dreams. An Asian-American writer growing up in a tight and traditional Chinese connection in California, Kingston is placed by her background and time period to be at the unique nexus of an aged, stale social institution and a youthful, boisterous o ne. She has had to face lifetime as an alien to the culture of the land she grew up in, as well as a last witness of some scattered and unspeakably tragic old ideals. She saw the sufferings and has suffered herself but instead of living life demurely in the dark corner of the family room alike she was expected to, Kingston became the first woman warrior to voice the plight of the mute females in both Chinese and American societies. The seemingly immeasurable and indeed decided gap between the two fundamentally divided cultures comes together in herself and her largely autobiographical work The Woman Warrior Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. One of the approximately striking features about Kingstons writings in The Woman Warrior is her use of poignant imageriesghosts, sil... ..., the dreams, the need to make do from social realitythey were what her heart saw growing up in that little forsaken old Chinese village in California, and they alone hold whatever deep significance t o her and her writings. With a blazing desire to detached the oppressed female voices, Kingston started with her own.Thus born The Woman Warrior, a chronicle of a Chinese American womans personal sufferings and triumphs, of duplicities and truths, and of struggles and breakaways a requiem for all the victims of the old culture whose soundless cries have not been heard and who died without a name, engulfed by the phantasma and the silence. In her world then, at least, the failed heroine Fa Mu Lan is redeemed.Works CitedKingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. New York Random House, 1975. Vintage International Edition, April 1989. Impact of Chinese Heritage on Maxine Hong Kingstons The Woman Warrior Impact of Chinese Heritage on Maxine Hong Kingstons The Woman WarriorHaunted by the power of images? I do feel that I go into madness and chaos. Theres a journey of everything falling apart, even the meaning and the order that I can put on something by the writing. Maxine Hong KingstonIt is true that some dream in color, and some dream in black and white. Some dream in Sonic sounds, and some dream in silence. In Maxine Hong Kingstons literary works, the readers enter a soundless dream that is painted entirely in the color of blackdifferent shades and blocks of pigments mixing and clashing with each other, opening up infinite possibilities for both beautiful if frightening nightmares and impossible dreams. An Asian-American writer growing up in a tight and traditional Chinese community in California, Kingston is placed by her background and time period to be at the unique nexus of an aged, stale social institution and a youthful, boisterous one. She has had to face life as an alien to the culture of the land she grew up in, as well as a last witness of some scattered and unspeakably tragic old ideals. She saw the sufferings and has suffered herself but instead of living life demurely in the dark corner of the famil y room like she was expected to, Kingston became the first woman warrior to voice the plight of the mute females in both Chinese and American societies. The seemingly immeasurable and indeed unconquerable gap between the two fundamentally divided cultures comes together in herself and her largely autobiographical work The Woman Warrior Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. One of the most striking features about Kingstons writings in The Woman Warrior is her use of poignant imageriesghosts, sil... ..., the dreams, the need to escape from social realitythey were what her heart saw growing up in that little forsaken old Chinese village in California, and they alone hold any deep significance to her and her writings. With a blazing desire to free the oppressed female voices, Kingston started with her own.Thus born The Woman Warrior, a chronicle of a Chinese American womans personal sufferings and triumphs, of duplicities and truths, and of struggles and breakaways a requiem for all the victims of the old culture whose soundless cries have not been heard and who died without a name, engulfed by the darkness and the silence. In her world then, at least, the failed heroine Fa Mu Lan is redeemed.Works CitedKingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. New York Random House, 1975. Vintage International Edition, April 1989.