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Bread givers and other nurturers

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1988
Summary:
Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts share the common themes of the restrictions placed on women, daughters of recent immigrants, who suffered from poverty, discrimination, and sexual repression both from within and without their cultural milieu. Woman Warrior is an epic poem, history mixed with myth, while Bread Givers is a fevered morality tale. Yezierska's world was full of Jewish patriarchal edicts, Kingston's bore the weight of matriarchal definition of her Chinese ancestor's beliefs. The mutual and overwhelming need to break the barriers of enforced silence created two rich human documents which by their very nature mediate the seemingly irreconcilable. Whether they are considered fiction, memoirs, or elegies, both books' outstanding contribution is reinforcement of the concept of self-determination which was attained without destroying either author's ethnic or cultural heritage.
Title: Bread givers and other nurturers.
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Name(s): Mincho, Jane.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Nathan, Norman, Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1988
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 71 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts share the common themes of the restrictions placed on women, daughters of recent immigrants, who suffered from poverty, discrimination, and sexual repression both from within and without their cultural milieu. Woman Warrior is an epic poem, history mixed with myth, while Bread Givers is a fevered morality tale. Yezierska's world was full of Jewish patriarchal edicts, Kingston's bore the weight of matriarchal definition of her Chinese ancestor's beliefs. The mutual and overwhelming need to break the barriers of enforced silence created two rich human documents which by their very nature mediate the seemingly irreconcilable. Whether they are considered fiction, memoirs, or elegies, both books' outstanding contribution is reinforcement of the concept of self-determination which was attained without destroying either author's ethnic or cultural heritage.
Identifier: 14473 (digitool), FADT14473 (IID), fau:11272 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1988.
Subject(s): Yezierska, Anzia,--1880?-1970.--Bread givers.
Kingston, Maxine Hong.--Woman warrior.
Women immigrants--United States.
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