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

Title: Tell this silence : Asian American women writers and the politics of speech / by Patti Duncan.
Author: Duncan, Patti, 1970-
Publication: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2004.

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Description

xvi, 274 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

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.

Call Number

JFE 04-2439

ISBN

0877458561 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2003050739

OCLC

52269097

Author

Duncan, Patti, 1970-

Title

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

Imprint

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2004.

Bibliography

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

Research Call Number

JFE 04-2439

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