Tell this silence : Asian American women writers and the politics of speech / by Patti Duncan.
Publication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2004.Description: xvi, 274 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0877458561 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 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
- 810.9/895 21
- PS153.A84 D86 2004
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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.