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King-Kok Cheung

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

English · Hardback

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Summary

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...

Product details

Authors	King-Kok Cheung
Publisher	Cornell University Press

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	08.07.1993

EAN	9780801424151
ISBN	978-0-8014-2415-1
No. of pages	216
Dimensions	152 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
Weight	907 g
Series	Reading Women Writing
Subjects	Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, Ethnic Studies, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren, Nord- und Zentralamerikanische Indigene Sprachen

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