Articulate Silences : : Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Joy Kogewa / / King-Kok Cheung.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Reading Women Writing
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 5 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Terminology
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Rhetorical Silence: “Seventeen Syllables,” “Yoneko’s Earthquake,” and “The Legend of Miss Sasagawara”
- 3. Provocative Silence: The Woman Warrior and China Men
- 4. Attentive Silence: Obasan
- Coda
- Bibliography
- Index