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This 6 page paper discusses the question of identity formation using three texts: "No Name Woman" by Kingston; "Aria" by Rodriguez and "Yes Ma'am" by McCloskey. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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construct our identity, bit by bit, from many different sources: our culture, our beliefs, our families, our friends, our sexuality, even our language-all of these components and more go into
what we know as identity. This paper closely examines "No Name Woman" as its primary source and argues that the story illustrates the importance of a cultures sexual practices on
identity. Supporting sources are "Aria" by Richard Rodriguez and Deirdre N. McCloskeys "Yes, Maam"; the first supplies insights about language and the second about sexual identity, though in a far
different way from "No Name Woman." Discussion "No Name Woman" is a heart-breaking story from China about the terrible retribution villagers take on a young woman who becomes pregnant. Maxine
Hong Kingston begins her story with these words: "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. We say that your father has all brothers because it is as if she had never been born" (Kingston). Indeed
it is the young suicide who is the "no name woman" of the title. The shame she brings on her family leads them to disown her completely, so that her
niece (Kingston) doesnt even know her aunts name. The scene in which the villagers wreck the girls familys home is related to the author by her mother, and its
awful: "On the night the baby was to be born the villagers raided our house. Some were crying. ... As the villagers closed in, we could see that some of
them, probably men and women we knew well, wore white masks. ... At first they threw mud and rocks at the house. Then they threw eggs and began slaughtering our
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