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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 recognize the ways in which Asian American women have resisted and continue to challenge the various forms of oppression in their lives. There has not yet been adequate discussion of the multiple meanings of silence and speech, especially in relation to activism and social-justice movement

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9781587294433

1587294435

OCLC:

56109473