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

By: Publication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2004.Description: xvi, 274 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0877458561 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 810.9/895 21
LOC classification:
  • PS153.A84 D86 2004
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks PS153 .A84 D86 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039000714625

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.

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