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

by King-Kok Cheung

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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 communities and defy the dominant culture that suppresses the voicing of minority experiences. Yet at the same time, they demonstrate how silences--voiceless...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0801481473

ISBN13:9780801481475

Release Date:July 1993

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:216 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Classics Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Social Science Social Sciences

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