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Author:

Duncan, Patti, 1970-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Iowa Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xvi, 274 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-266) and index.

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.

ISBN:

9780877458562 (cloth : alk. paper)
0877458561 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52269097

LCCN:

2003050739

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)