Duncan, Patti,  1970- <br/><br/>
Tell this silence  Asian American women writers and the politics of speech /  [electronic resource] : 
by Patti Duncan. 
 - Iowa City :  University of Iowa Press,  c2004. 
 - xvi, 274 p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-266) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2013. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American literature--Asian American authors--History and criticism.<br/>American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.<br/>Asian American women--Intellectual life.<br/>Politics and literature--United States.<br/>Women and literature--United States.<br/>Asian American women in literature.<br/>Asian Americans in literature.<br/>Sex role in literature.<br/>Silence in literature.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS153.A84  / D86 2004eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>810.9/895