《新编美国文学史（第三卷）》课件lecture 16 Maxine Hong Kingston

1、How different are Dee and Maggie? Which daughter does the mother prefer? Why does Dee changer her name to “Wangero”? If Dee changes her name to forget her origin, why does she want the quilts(churns etc.) of old life? Why does Maggie want to get the quilts too? Why does the mother finally chose to l

2、eave quilts to Maggie? “Everyday Use”Maggie:Appearance: scarred Education :“she is not bright”Life: living with her mother; marrying a local guyPersonality: meek, shy and silencedDee:Appearance: ;“Dee is lighter than Maggie, with nicer hair and a fuller figure”; Dressed in bright clothing and gold j

3、ewelryEducation : College educatedLife: living in the city; a loverPersonality: Ambitious and determined“ I am the way my daughter would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked barley pancake” Dee being ashamed of her lowly origin“I did something I never done before.”“I rea

4、lly see that story as almost about one person, the old woman and two daughters being one person. ” “Dee is dead”-WangeroBoyfriend Hakim-a-barberQuilts “old fashioned , out of style” to hang, or frame the quiltsKnows how to quilt; “Shed probably be backward enough to put them to everyday use.”The inf

5、luence of the Black Power MovementThe Nation of IslamDee, chasing the fashionMaggie, real connection to heritage “They had been pieced by Grandma Dee and then Big Dee and me had hung them on the quilt frames on the front porch and quilted them.”What it must have meant for “a black woman to be an art

6、ist in our grandmothers time?Quilt: African American womens life and artWhy is the story dedicated to “Grandmamma”?American Literature since 1945 IIILecture 16Maxine Hong Kingston and “No Name Woman”TheWoman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (1976)Maxine Hong KingstonFa Mu LanBrave OrchidM

7、oon OrchidTsai Yen“Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhood fits into solid America.”“Gold Mountain”Chinese Gold MinersNo Name Woman severely crippled her familys social standing in the Chinese village; simi

8、larly, I am warned by Brave Orchid not to embarrass my family. I am confused by mothers “talk-story” of No Name Woman and rewrite the tale based my own understanding of the patriarchal nature of traditional Chinese society.I imagines various versions, but eventually settles for one version in which

9、No Name Woman had at least some positive control of her own destination rather than being merely a victim. For I, silencethe absence of languageequals voicelessness, which in turn means the loss of identity.Statements“Didnt Baldwin say . . . that being a Negro was the gate he had to unlock before he

10、 could write about anything else? I think being an Asian American must be like that. Through that bodily gate the alphabets pour in. This is our life in letters.” “Chinese- Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?”Conclusion 1. Multiple choice