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Stephann -> The Woman Warrior (6/19/2007 6:40:06 AM)

I just heard a short excerpt of a book on NPR this morning.

quote:

You're going to talk, (I said, my voice steady and normal, as it is when talking to the familiar, the weak, and the small. ) I am going to make you talk, you sissy-girl.


Sounds promising...

Stephan



Lashra -> RE: The Woman Warrior (6/19/2007 8:36:49 AM)

"You must not tell anyone," my mother said, "what I am about to tell you. In China your father had a sister who killed herself. She jumped into the family well."

The villagers then attacked their home and destroyed whatever they could to this end:

"When they left, they took sugar and oranges to bless themselves. They cut pieces from the dead animals. Some of them took bowls that were not broken and clothes that were not torn. Afterward we swept up the rice and sewed it back up in the sacks. But the smells from the spilled preserves lasted. Your aunt gave birth in the pigsty that night. The next morning when I went for the water, I found her and the baby plugging up the family well."

It is a excellent book from which women can recognize their inner warrior and draw strength from it.

~Lashra





Trampler -> RE: The Woman Warrior (6/19/2007 2:06:59 PM)

I will definately have to check out that book! Thanks Stephann!



DragonNphoenix -> RE: The Woman Warrior (6/19/2007 10:55:58 PM)

I just went to the site and read the excerpt of the book there.  Very intense.  I think that this is a book that I am going to have my teenage daughter and those in my coven read. 
 
1st girl Phoenix



Faramir -> RE: The Woman Warrior (6/21/2007 8:19:53 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Lashra

"You must not tell anyone," my mother said, "what I am about to tell you. In China your father had a sister who killed herself. She jumped into the family well."


That story is anthologized in the Norton Anthology of Literature by Women--I read it a couple of years ago in a feminist lit class I took.  Powerful stuff, and that story in particular was one that many of the class found problematic.  What to make of the lover?



charlotte12 -> RE: The Woman Warrior (6/22/2007 10:35:40 PM)

I will have to check it out :)



Stephann -> RE: The Woman Warrior (6/24/2007 2:49:45 PM)

charlotte,

suppose you can lend it to me when you're done? ;)

Stephan



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