Tell this silence : Asian American women writers and the politics of speech /
by Patti Duncan.
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2004.
- xvi, 274 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
0877458561 (cloth : alk. paper)
2003050739
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.