Articulate Silences Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Joy Kogewa |
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| Author:
| Cheung, King-Kok |
| Series title: | Reading Women Writing Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8014-8147-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1993 |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $67.99 |
Book Description:
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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...
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...