Sensing the Angry Mother
Miming the Angry Dragon in Maxine Hong Kingston's THE WOMAN WARRIOR
Maxine Hong Kingston, Audre Lorde, and Terese Marie Mailhot’s narrators all write from the understanding of anger as force and force as something always already outside the realm of human control, even as it is wielded by their own mothers within (and thus changing the nature of) the domestic space of the home. L…