Picture bride furnishes a rich text for the study of relationships among ethnicity, culture and writing. Picture Bride can be read as a Personal history and a paradigm for analysing multicultural writing.
Insights from this interview between Song and Fujita-Sato:
"["Picture bride"] concern[s] marriage, motherhood, traditional women's roles in both Asian and American society...images of women in art and the nature of artistic creation."
"Picture Bride recreates as plenitude for the reader's consumption; it is a feast of pit cures colored by the particularities of [my] experience"
"PB is less about arranged marriage per se than a meditation on how to acquire knowledge of the past."
"poems [should] trace an event or idea back to a point of origin"
Fujita notices the the anthology refers explicits to a socio-historical phenomenon buy says more about interpretation and imagination of events.The section titles , borrowed from paintings, suggest an emphasis on creation and expressive forms, but in some sections te poems grouped under these titles emphasize socio-histirical concretes.
Cathy feels "The organization of the book...presents a structure of crossing categories or a structure of pluralism and synthesis."
"Blue and White Lines" is about the limits defining a speaker. (on why it is spoken in voice of G. O'Keeffe)
In literature, especially in "lines" she finds writing as "a perceptive, sensitive and serious rendition of the visitors point of view"
"[balance is] fundamental to the painter's creativity and personal vision"
On her inspiration writing the anthology, she speaks of the impact of the book "Georgia O'Keeffe" appearing soon after she transferred to Wesley "All the O'Keeffe poems in Picture Bride sprang from this encounter."
Her work and writing is about discovery, and the "pluralistic underpinnings of societies shaped by different cultures and ethnicies"a survey of her personal stories and the retelling of images and ideas through words. To acquire knowledge of the past and retell it.
In a shorter interview she says it is "very important" that she continues to write, for her 'children" ... "especially for [my] daugther." Writing uncovers, reminds, and remembers the vital points of our past and explores through response and analysis, how it shapes us.
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