China...Women Flashcards
China…Women Topic sentence
Noonuccal’s poem “China…Women” illustrates a cross cultural solidarity and thus highlighting their intrinsic cultural relationship to land (or Q) and their shared struggle against the oppression of their identities. This realisation rekindles her personal identity as a writer and her creativity after six years of not writing.
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Furthermore, her peaceful tone conveyed in “The ancient dynasties sleep. Emperors are entombed in museums”, emphasises the conservation of Chinese and Aboriginal cultures, both awaiting their re-emergence.
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Moreover, she underpins their cultural similarities through their relationship with spirituality as “The Great Wall Twines itself Around and over them”. Noonuccal’s reflection forges a direct link between the two cultures through using anthropomorphism to represent her own mythological rainbow serpent which demonstrates how spirituality is intertwined with land and culture. Simultaneously, by personifying the wall, she illustrates its synthesis with ‘recreation’ and the continuity of Chinese culture, akin to the serpent’s nurturing and fertile nature. ANS Q ?.
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However, man’s greed for power resulted in the decimation of traditional values and percipation of widespread fear as portrayed in “I hear the heavy tramp Of the liberating army”. Her use of auditory imagery evokes a sense of terror culminating in the ‘trampling’ of the ‘four olds’—habits, culture, customs, and ideas—thus representes ANS Q
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Additionally, the term ‘liberating army’ is ironic, as the suppression of ANS Q identity stemmed from an internal invasion rather than a foreign one, ultimately rendering the ‘Great Wall’ an oxymoron. ANS Q ?
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Moreover, Noonuccal’s Aboriginal perspective on the post-cultural revolution China demonstrates the signficance of ANS Q in society, leading to her characterization of China as a “Weeping Wildflower.”. Noonuccal thus evokes a visual and emotional scene of sadness to symbolises the detachment between Chinese culture and the enviroment.
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At the same time, she associates this symbol of destruction with her own Aboriginal identity in the wake of colonisation.
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Lastly, her symbolism of the “lotus plant” serves as a powerful analogy for China’s rebirth illustrating how Chinese culture continues to blossom even after the suppression of their ANS Q identity. This connects with her feminist extended metaphor of “pregnant with expectations,” as she envisions China’s cultural reconciliation could serve as an archetype for the potential reunification of Aboriginal cultural identity after generations of a ‘fragmented’ relationship.
