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In a climate of significant social and technological change, researchers must respond to increased ethical regulation and scrutiny of research. New sources, types of data and modes of accessing participants are all challenging and reconfiguring traditional ideas of the research relationship. Billy shifts the skateboard uncomfortably from one armpit to the other. “Just tell me what’s going to happen when we get to Mrs. Henderson’s.” This novel is a whirlpool that draws you irresistibly into levels of darkness so much deeper than you can possibly be ready for´ Ambrose Parry Elisabeth Croll, Changing Identities of Chinese Women: Rhetoric, Experience, and Self-Perception in Twentieth-Century China, Zed Books, 1995. I enjoyed the setting of the individual stories and the gothic historical and religious elements along with the mention of real people who lived at the time and are included in the narrative.
Kingston has noted that her desire to write about her people, a group most commonly identified by a common language rather than a specific place, has presented problems: "It affects the shape of what I am writing to have to make up words to describe things that have never been written in English before." She studied Mark Twain and Gertrude Stein who, "had the goal of hearing the way people talk and creating the illusion of speech in writing." She also carefully read Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1928), "trying to understand how she works so well with time, the big expanses of time and the little moments." Smith, Sidonie. A Poetics of Women’s Autobiography: Marginality and the Fictions of Self-Representation. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. Smith notes the ways in which Kingston uses autobiography as a means of creating identity and breaking out of the silence that her culture imposes on her. She also states that The Woman Warrior is “an autobiography about women’s autobiographical storytelling,” emphasizing the relationship between genre and gender. I normally don’t do too well with translated fiction, it often feels too formal for me but I actually really enjoyed this one, particularly in the last part of the book when things really heated up and it all got super dark and creepy. There are a fair few characters to remember & I did get them muddled up sometimes jumping from timeline to timeline but I got there in the end. It’s a relatively short book with short & snappy chapters which I love. Oh and my copy had the most stunning sprayed edges I’ve ever seen on a book, if you like that sort of thing! He jumps when he feels something swat at his arm: Steve’s fist, taking him off guard. Billy rounds on him furiously, rubbing his sore bicep: “What was that for?” Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, "Women in Society," in Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia [CD-ROM], Grolier Interactive, Inc., 1998.
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The author traces Chinese traditions from prehistory through modern times, focusing on the arts, culture, economics, foreign policy, emigration, and politics. Of particular interest is the author's discussion of Chinese society's treatment of women. As an autobiography, the book is concerned with portraying the experiences of a single individual faced with the problems inherent in growing up female and Chinese-American in California during the 1950s and 1960s. The narrative captures the confusion, the alienation, and the pain of growing up as a first generation American, caught between American realities and the manners and morals, lies and legends of Chinese elders. The entire book is an attempt to answer the question posed early on: "when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese?" Kingston is not concerned with typical biographical details such as her interaction with her siblings, or her interest in books, friends or fashion. Rather, through stories about her mother and her mother's stories of life in China, Kingston movingly presents the powerful social forces that shaped her views of herself and her world, a world in which girls are referred to as "maggots" and "slaves" and are forced to participate in their own humiliation. The Woman Warrior is a blend of autobiographical material about the second-generation Chinese-American author and the myths and dreams that constitute her psychic reality. By fusing fact and imagination, Maxine Hong Kingston works toward answers to the central problem articulated at the beginning of the book. This problem isto figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fit in solid America. . . . Chinese-Americans, . . . how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese?
Assimilation into an alien culture seemed unimportant to Brave Orchid, secure in her own identity. As a mature woman, she had studied exorcism, midwifery, and modern medicine. A brilliant scholar and a dragoness, she once fought off a Sitting Ghost, a great furry creature that saps the energy of its victims. All night, Brave Orchid insulted the ghost and then chanted her lessons for the following day’s classes. The next morning, she and the other women, chanting and singing, smoked out the creature and killed it. Kudos to Johana for bringing a wonderfully complex tale and several historical periods to life. Congrats to the translator David Warriner for a chillingly good translation ( I have read the French and the nuances and shadows have been captured perfectly. The only thing I prefered about the French was the title. The English one is just a bit too gory and just reminds me of dripping blood and hospitals. That’s just me being squeamish perhaps. Forget the title, just head inside the covers…. Maxine Hong Kingston, "At the Western Palace," The Woman Warrior, Vintage International, 1989, p. 160. Cheung, King-Kok. Articulate Silences: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993. In her chapter on Kingston, Cheung notes the way in which historical and parental silence provokes the author to use her imagination to create possible versions of stories that her taciturn parents refuse to convey. In addition to having a unique writing style, Kingston also uses an unusual structure in her organization of The Woman Warrior. The central theme focuses on a young Chinese girl's growing up in America and being pulled by the forces of both Chinese and American customs. Yet Kingston creates the drama of the girl's life through five separate stories of events through which the girl has matured. These five episodes help to show how the girl forms an identity for herself through the relationships she has with the women in her life.
Now, what other author do you know who could take these three and carve a story from them. A story so strong and gripping that I was captivated from the start and the pace never let up. There were real moments where I felt chilled, where the story delved into the realm of the occult and more. I realised then how the author was showing us how women were judged by history and how they still are. All of the women in this story are driven by something strong yet they are judged and treated harshly.
In 1949, Quebecois schoolgirl, Lina also has cause to call on the assistance of otherworldly entities as she struggles with the cruel taunts of her bullying peers. Her father died in the French Resistance but even as loss becomes the theme which unites the three women, there are much darker elements at play here too. The sense of foreboding is perhaps most strongly felt during the chapters which follow Lina as she eagerly welcomes the guidance offered by the elderly woman she befriends in the asylum her mother works in.
Of course, THE GULF BETWEEN is also blatantly emotional, tugging at the heart strings, portraying Julia at her most vulnerable, scared and confused. So when I say family saga, what I'm talking about is relationships, marriages, in-laws and relatives, children and living in different cultures and in other people's homes, under their rules. It exposes the potential of misplaced trust, and how your belief in others can go very wrong. And the price that some people pay for choices made. Symbolism provides substance for two of the five stories in The Woman Warrior. At the beginning of "Shaman," Brave Orchid is attending medical school after having spent the last decade or more of her adult life serving her husband and family as a traditional Chinese woman. When her fellow students challenge her to investigate a dormitory room that is supposedly haunted, she accepts the dare and spends the night in the room. The next day, she claims to have fought a fierce battle with "Sitting Ghost." She tells her friends that it still threatens them and convinces the girls to help her fight and conquer it. The group holds a ritual that rids the room of the dangerous spirit. This act symbolizes Brave Orchid's battle with the confining role of Chinese women. No. I don’t know what you’re saying,” Steve had said. “You don’t strike me as the head in the clouds type, Hargrove.”
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