Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-266) and index.
Contents
The uses of silence and the "will to unsay" -- What makes an American? : histories of immigration and exclusion of Asians in the U.S. in Maxine Hong Kingston's China men -- "White sound" and silences from stone : discursive silences in the internment writings of Mitsuye Yamada and Joy Kogawa -- Cartographies of silence : language and nation in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee -- Silence and public discourse : interventions into dominant national and sexual narratives in Anchee Min's Red azalea and Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman -- Tell this silence : Asian American women's narratives and feminist movement.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.