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

Klappentext King-Kok Cheung is Associate Professor of English at UCLA. She received her Ph.D. degree in English from the University of California! Berkeley. She is also the author of Asian American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography. Zusammenfassung 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, CHEUNG KING KOK
• Editore: Cornell University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 08.07.1993
• EAN: 9780801481475
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-8147-5
• Pagine: 216
• Serie: Reading Women Writing; Reading Women Writing
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese