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

by King-Kok Cheung

Book Overview

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 suppresses the voicing of minority experiences. Yet at the same time, they demonstrate how silences--voiceless...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801481473
• ISBN13: 9780801481475
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher