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

Tell This Silence by Patti Duncan explores multiple meanings of speech and silence in Asian American women's writings in order to explore relationships among race, gender, sexuality, and national identity. Duncan argues that contemporary definitions of U.S. feminism must be expanded to recogniz...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Duncan, Patti, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.