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

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [255]-266) and index.
LCCN 2003050739
ISBN0877458561 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS153.A84 D86 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold