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Masking Selves, Making Subjects

Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body

Masking Selves, Making Subjects( )
Author: Yamamoto, Traise
ISBN:978-0-520-21034-9
Publication Date:Jan 1999
Publisher:University of California Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $29.95
Book Description:

This sophisticated and comprehensive study is the first to situate Japanese American women's writing within theoretical contexts that provide a means of articulating the complex relationships between language and the body, gender and agency, nationalism and identity. Through an examination of post-World War II autobiographical writings, fiction, and poetry, Traise Yamamoto argues that these writers have employed the trope of masking-textually and psychologically-as a strategy to create...
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