Tell this silence : Asian American women writers and the politics of speech / by Patti Duncan.

Tell This Silence by Patti Duncan explores multiple meanings of speech and silence in Asian American women's writings in order to explore relationships among race, gender, sexuality, and national identity. Duncan argues that contemporary definitions of U.S. feminism must be expanded to recogniz...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Duncan, Patti, 1970- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2004]
Subjects:	American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism. American literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Asian American women > Intellectual life. Politics and literature > United States. Women and literature > United States. Asian American women in literature. Asian Americans in literature. Sex role in literature. Silence in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > Asian American. American literature > Asian American authors American literature > Women authors Asian American women in literature Asian American women > Intellectual life Asian Americans in literature Politics and literature Sex role in literature Silence in literature Women and literature United States Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: The uses of silence and the "will to unsay"
What makes an American? : histories of immigration and exclusion of Asians in the U.S. in Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men
"White sound" and silences from stone : discursive silences in the internment writings of Mitsuye Yamada and Joy Kogawa
Cartographies of silence : language and nation in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee
Silence and public discourse : interventions into dominant national and sexual narratives in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman and Anchee Min's Red Azalea
Conclusion: Tell this silence : Asian American women's narratives, gender, nation, and history.

Tell this silence : Asian American women writers and the politics of speech / by Patti Duncan.

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