Women Silence

Women Silence

In Maxine Kingston’s, Woman Warrior women silence is a recurring theme that impacts the main protagonist, Kingston as a youth. She is told to not tell anyone about her No Name Aunt. In addition, parts of her tongue is also cut off by her mother in order for her to speak more lucidly in a foreign surrounding, however, as a teenager, Kingston believes her mother cuts it for precisely the opposite reasons. In addition, growing up as a Chinese American, her parent directs her to remain secretive to her teachers and the Americans around her, which exhibits another form of silence. The theme of silence is significant to the course of women writers because women writers have the contrary incentives as they speak up to society through their writings. As for Kingston, writer becomes a form of defying society’s conventional values of women remaining silent.

Donald Ung