Articulate silences : Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa
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...
Print Book, English, 1995, c1993
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Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, NY [u.a.], 1995, c1993
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xvi, 198 p. : Ill. ; 23 cm.
9780801424151, 9780801481475, 0801424151, 0801481473
1152900650