Articulate silences : Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa /

In this pathbreaking book, King-Kok Cheung sheds new light on the thematic and rhetoncal uses of silence in fiction by three Asian American women: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, and JoyKogawa. Boldly articulating the unspeakable, these writers break the silence imposed by families or ethnic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cheung, King-Kok, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1993.
Colección:Reading women writing.
Temas:
Kingston, Maxine Hong > Criticism and interpretation.
Yamamoto, Hisaye > Criticism and interpretation.
Kogawa, Joy > Criticism and interpretation.
Kingston, Maxine Hong.
Kogawa, Joy.
Yamamoto, Hisaye.
1900-1999
American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Asian American women > Intellectual life.
Asian American women in literature.
Asian Americans in literature.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine asiatique > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Écrits de femmes américains > Histoire et critique.
Américaines d'origine asiatique > Vie intellectuelle.
Américaines d'origine asiatique dans la littérature.
Américains d'origine asiatique dans la littérature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
American literature > Asian American authors.
American literature > Women authors.
Women and literature.
Aziaten.
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Letterkunde.
The woman warrior (Kingston)
United States.
English literature > By > Women
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ch. 1. Introduction
  • ch. 2. Rhetorical silence: "Seventeen syllables," "Yoneko's earthquake," and "The legend of Miss Sasagawara"
  • ch. 3. Provocative silence: the Woman Warrior and China Men
  • ch. 4. Attentive silence: Obasan.

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