This paper is to illustrate that form develops meaning in Maxine Hong Kingston＇s The Woman Warrior （1989）. Her writing is permeated with the dual forces stretching to diverse directions, and equips readers with the...This paper is to illustrate that form develops meaning in Maxine Hong Kingston＇s The Woman Warrior （1989）. Her writing is permeated with the dual forces stretching to diverse directions, and equips readers with the mimic world to be pushed and pulled to experience all the paradoxes in narrator＇s life. This enigmatic writing style is the mimesis of the push-pull dynamics existent in the mother-daughter relationship in the book, and also through this kind of writing does the writer finally succeed in breaking away from the suffocating mother-daughter relationship and in claiming her own unique identity.展开更多
文摘This paper is to illustrate that form develops meaning in Maxine Hong Kingston＇s The Woman Warrior （1989）. Her writing is permeated with the dual forces stretching to diverse directions, and equips readers with the mimic world to be pushed and pulled to experience all the paradoxes in narrator＇s life. This enigmatic writing style is the mimesis of the push-pull dynamics existent in the mother-daughter relationship in the book, and also through this kind of writing does the writer finally succeed in breaking away from the suffocating mother-daughter relationship and in claiming her own unique identity.
