Articulate Silences : Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Joy Kogewa /

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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Cheung, King-Kok, 1954-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1993.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Yamamoto, Hisaye.
Kogawa, Joy.
Kingston, Maxine Hong.
Kogawa, Joy > Criticism and interpretation.
Yamamoto, Hisaye > Criticism and interpretation.
Kingston, Maxine Hong > Criticism and interpretation.
The woman warrior (Kingston)
Letterkunde.
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Aziaten.
Women and literature.
Asian Americans in literature.
Asian American women > Intellectual life.
Asian American women in literature.
American literature > Women authors.
American literature > Asian American authors.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
Americains d'origine asiatique dans la litterature.
Americaines d'origine asiatique dans la litterature.
Americaines d'origine asiatique > Vie intellectuelle.
Écrits de femmes americains > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et litterature > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Litterature americaine > Auteurs americains d'origine asiatique > Histoire et critique.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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