![]() ![]() I argue that the specter is an inheritance from mother to daughter, and that the narrator’s interpretation of this inheritance creates her understanding of herself as a second-generation immigrant. ![]() I argue that the specter in The Woman Warrior, in the variety of ways it appears, is the agent of tension between the narrator and her mother, exacerbated by their different experiences as second and first-generation, respectively, Chinese immigrants. ![]() I use Derrida’s thoughts, as well as others', to explicate the relationship between the women in The Woman Warrior and Comfort Woman and their respective specters. ![]() In my analysis of these elements, I use the theoretical lens of deconstruction as it is discussed in Jacques Derrida’s 1993 work, Specters of Marx, a text I found applicable due to its central conceit relying on the idea of a specter. These pieces both feature ghosts and intense investigations of mother-daughter relationships. This paper looks at two relatively recent works by Asian American women writers: The Woman Warrior (1978) by Maxine Hong Kingston and Comfort Woman (1997) by Nora Okja Keller. ![]()
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