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

By: Duncan, Patti, 1970-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2004Description: xvi, 274 p.Subject(s): 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 literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/895 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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 Anchee Min's Red azalea and Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman -- Tell this silence : Asian American women's narratives and feminist movement.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-266) and index.

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 Anchee Min's Red azalea and Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman -- Tell this silence : Asian American women's narratives and feminist movement.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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