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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duncan, Patti, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Asian American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Asian American authors.

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Asian American women--Intellectual life.

Asian American women.

Politics and literature--United States.

Politics and literature.

Women and literature--United States.

Women and literature.

Asian American women in literature.

Asian Americans in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Silence in literature.

American literature--Women authors.

United States.

Physical Description:

xvi, 274 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2004]

Contents:

The uses of silence and the will to unsay

What makes an American? : histories of immigration and exclusion of Asians in the United States 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 Dictée

Silence and public discourse : interventions into dominant national and sexual narratives in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman and Anchee Min's Red azalea

Tell this silence : Asian American women's narratives, gender, nation, and history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-266) and index.

ISBN:

0877458561

OCLC:

52269097