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No Name Woman - Maxine Hong Kingston

Study questions

What is the Gold Mountain? What is the origin of this name?

Why does Kingston's mother tell her the story of her aunt? what message does it send?

Why would the men in Kingston's family leave to America?

Why is the aunt a "No Name Woman"?

Why does this book have the subtitle "A Girlhood Among Ghosts"?

What is "talk-story"?

Quote how the villiage raided the house.

What is the status of a woman in Chinese culture? Support your answers with quotes from the text.

How does Kingston tell the story of her aunt? Why does she tell it this way?

Where did the aunt (no name woman) gave birth to her child?

1. A hospital
2. A pigsty
3. Her home
4. In america

What comes first in old China, the individual or the community? How is this diffrent in the US?

Why is Kingston so focused on space in the discription of het aunt?

Why does Kingston say that she has participated in her aunt's punishment?

Why did the aunt take her child with her when committing suicide in the well?

End study questions