Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Autobiography As A Weapon To Fight For Self-Identity = Pejuang Wanita Buku Maxine Hong Kingston: Autobiografi sebagai Sarana untuk Memperjuangkan Identitas Diri

• Main Author: Perpustakaan UGM, i-lib
• Format: Article NonPeerReviewed
• Published: [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 2005
• Subjects: Jurnal i-lib UGM
• Online Access: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/18914/; http://i-lib.ugm.ac.id/jurnal/download.php?dataId=1734
• Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada

ABSTRACT The writer of this thesis attempts to explore Kingston's autobiography The Woman Warrior as a mental evidence to study American-Born Chinese woman's experience in the United States, especially in the struggle to search for self-identity. The autobiography analyzed in this study represents Chinses parents' efforts to preserve ancestors' tradition by imposing them to the daughters. As a result, most ABC women experience a dilemma of choosing between the two contradictory values, the traditional Chinese and the American. This study also reveals that in the family the Chinese daughters are discriminated heavily. The interdisciplinary approach, which involves the history, culture, sociology, and literature, is applied in this study. By using this approach, the writer of this thesis discovers that discrimination toward daughters in Chinese family also means that individualism is also absent in traditional Chinese society. The result of the study shows that the autobiography acted as a liberating weapon to fight for the bondage of old tradition and community's domination and a vehicle for a Chinese-American woman to exist as an individual with a new identity. Keywords: contradictory values, dilemma, autobiography, self-identity.