The Woman Warrior

            Maxine Hong Kingston’s No Name Woman is part of the novel entitled “The Woman Warrior.” Its first chapter is the No Name Woman, which is about protagonist and her family. The villagers feel that their family is mysterious. She also feels that because her ‘no name’ aunt bears a…

The Silent Treatment: Suppression of the Voice in The Woman Warrior and When Living Was A Labor Camp Gloria Anzaldua, in her novel Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, proclaims that “I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent’s tongue – my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice. I…

First published in 1945 and reissued with a new introduction in 1989, Jade Snow Wong’s Fifth Chinese Daughter is an autobiographical account of a young girl’s twofold struggle to free herself from the patriarchal binds of her ancestral Chinese culture while claiming her place within Anglo American mainstream society. Fifth Chinese Daughter’s enduring popularity, most…

Introduction             The environment, in which authors are leading their lives are reflected in their literary works. Their culture is portrayed through their writings.  The novels “Bless Me, Ultima” by Rudolfo Anaya, “Ceremony” by Leslie Silko and “The Woman Warrior” by Maxine Hong Kingston depict the cultural environment of the authors, in which they have…