“A Ritual of Remembrance Keeping Her Memory Alive” : Cathy Song’s Picture Bride

• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: 이향미 Hyang-Mi Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제117호, 41~56쪽, 전체 15쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2015.06.30

영문 초록

The 1982winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Cathy Song’s Picture Bride is located in the period of the avalanche of feminist writings by Asian American women writers. While a traditional ideal of femininity for Asian Americans has restrained women’s articulation of their own identities, Song recognizes that the relationship between feminism and ethnicity is not that of choosing one while discarding the other. Rather, through her writings, the poet embraces the heritage of her ancestors, believing that claiming her identity as an Asian American woman is inseparable from constructing her ethnic identity. Placing herself as a register of the history of her family as well as of Asian Americans at large, Song holds a “ritual of remembrance” to disclose and comfort the hidden subjects of history. Focusing on her best-known work, Picture Bride , this paper is going to examine the way in which Song unfolds a story restrained by major historiographies.

목차

1. Introduction

2. “Yet, I Am Here, Mother.”

3. “Seamstress” Sewing the Rift between the Past and the Present

4. Capturing “the Wisp of Shadows, . . . the Moments in between”

5. Conclusion

키워드

Cathy Song Picture Bride remembering Asian American woman Asian American history