Overcoming Ghosts of the Past : Henley"s Crimes of the Heart and Kingston"s The Woman Warrior

• 영문명: Overcoming Ghosts of the Past : Henley"s Crimes of the Heart and Kingston"s The Woman Warrior
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: Joeng-meen Gye(계정민)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제81호, 99~110쪽, 전체 12쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2006.12.01

영문 초록

  This paper focuses upon two patriarchal cultures, the Southern and the Chinese ones, which idealize the acquiescent, passive, and self-sacrificing women. In conjunction with, and as examples of these two cultures, I examine how female characters in two representative literary works, Henley"s Crime"s of the Heart and Kingston"s The Woman Warrior, are affected by their respective patriarchal societies and how they succeed in their struggles for autonomy.
  The patriarchal dominance exerted over women in Crimes of the Heart and The Woman Warrior exemplifies how two geographically divergent cultures produce a very similar norm of femininity that restricts women"s position in family and society. Nonetheless, from within these two patriarchal societies, the repressed and devalued women, the MaGrath sisters and Kingston, struggle to break through cultural expectations which bound them to the ghosts of the past. Through the female bonding between sisters and by moving beyond both the silence and aggression, they are transformed into autonomous beings.

키워드

womanhood Southern Lady Chinese culture Beth Henley Crime" s of the Heart Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior