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

Riassunto

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...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: King-Kok Cheung
• Editore: Cornell University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 08.07.1993
• EAN: 9780801424151
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-2415-1
• Pagine: 216
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Peso: 907 g
• Serie: Reading Women Writing
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, Ethnic Studies, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren, Nord- und Zentralamerikanische Indigene Sprachen