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

Author/creator Duncan, Patti, 1970-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoIowa City : University of Iowa Press,
Descriptionxvi, 274 p. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
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.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [255]-266) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2003050739
ISBN0877458561 (cloth : alk. paper)