Articulate Silences

Author : King-Kok Cheung
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501721127
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Articulate Silences written by King-Kok Cheung and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 gestures, textual ellipses, authorial hesitations—can themselves be articulate. Drawing on theoretical works on women's writing, on ethnicity and race, and on postmodernism and history, Cheung takes issue with Anglo-American feminists who valorize speech unequivocally and with revisionist Asian American male critics who attempt to refute Orientalist stereotypes by renouncing silence. She challenges Eurocentric views of speech and silence as polarized, hierarchical, and gendered, and proposes an approach to Asian American literature which overturns the "East-West" or "dual personality" model. Yamamoto, Kingston, and Kogawa interweave speech and silence, narration and ellipses, autobiography and fiction as they adapt and recast Asian and Euro-American precursors. Drawing freely from both traditions, they reinvent the past by decentering, disseminating, and interrogating authority-but not by reappropriating it. A fresh and subtle response to issues relating to cultural diversity, Articulate Silences will be important reading for scholars and students in the fie,4s of literary theory and criticism, women's studies, Asian American studies, and ethnic studies.

Author : Shiv K. Kumar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780882534992
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Articulate Silences written by Shiv K. Kumar and published by . This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helena Grice
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719057632
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beginning Ethnic American Literatures written by Helena Grice and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-23 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is designed to introduce students not only to ethnic American writers, but also to the cultural contexts and literary traditions in which their work is situated.

Author : Patti Duncan
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587294435
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tell This Silence written by Patti Duncan and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tell This Silence by Patti Duncan explores multiple meanings of speech and silence in Asian American women's writings in order to explore relationships among race, gender, sexuality, and national identity. Duncan argues that contemporary definitions of U.S. feminism must be expanded to recognize the ways in which Asian American women have resisted and continue to challenge the various forms of oppression in their lives. There has not yet been adequate discussion of the multiple meanings of silence and speech, especially in relation to activism and social-justice movements in the U.S. In particular, the very notion of silence continues to invoke assumptions of passivity, submissiveness, and avoidance, while speech is equated with action and empowerment. However, as the writers discussed in Tell This Silence suggest, silence too has multiple meanings especially in contexts like the U.S., where speech has never been a guaranteed right for all citizens. Duncan argues that writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Mitsuye Yamada, Joy Kogawa, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Nora Okja Keller, and Anchee Min deploy silence as a means of resistance. Juxtaposing their “unofficial narratives” against other histories—official U.S. histories that have excluded them and American feminist narratives that have stereotyped them or distorted their participation—they argue for recognition of their cultural participation and offer analyses of the intersections among gender, race, nation, and sexuality. Tell This Silence offers innovative ways to consider Asian American gender politics, feminism, and issues of immigration and language. This exciting new study will be of interest to literary theorists and scholars in women's, American, and Asian American studies.

Author : Xiaojian Zhao
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3039 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asian Americans [3 volumes] written by Xiaojian Zhao and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 3039 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on Asian Americans, comprising three volumes that address a broad range of topics on various Asian and Pacific Islander American groups from 1848 to the present day. This three-volume work represents a leading reference resource for Asian American studies that gives students, researchers, librarians, teachers, and other interested readers the ability to easily locate accurate, up-to-date information about Asian ethnic groups, historical and contemporary events, important policies, and notable individuals. Written by leading scholars in their fields of expertise and authorities in diverse professions, the entries devote attention to diverse Asian and Pacific Islander American groups as well as the roles of women, distinct socioeconomic classes, Asian American political and social movements, and race relations involving Asian Americans.

Author : Sandra Kumamoto Stanley
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252066665
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Other Sisterhoods written by Sandra Kumamoto Stanley and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where are the women writers of color? Where are their theoretical voices? The fifteen contributors to Other Sisterhoods examine how women writers of color have contributed to the discourse of literary and cultural theory. They focus on the impact of key issues, such as social construction and identity politics, on the works of women writers of color, as well as how these women deal with differences relating to gender, class, race/ethnicity, and sexuality. The book also explores the ways women writers of color have created their own ethnopoetics within the arena of literary and cultural theory, helping to redefine the nature of theory itself.

Author : Helene Carol Weldt-Basson
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838641729
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subversive Silences written by Helene Carol Weldt-Basson and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weldt-Basson (Spanish, Wayne State U.) investigates how seven Latin American women writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have used the concept of submissive silence in their works as a sign of women's rebellion against the passive silence imposed by patriarchy. Using different theoretical perspectives in each chapter, she demonstrates how Marta Brunet, Maria Luisa Bombal, Rosario Castellanos, Isabel Allende, Rosario Ferre, Laura Esquivel, and Sandra Cisneros have used silence thematically and stylistically through hyperbole, coding, irony, parody, and cultural symbol and how silence reflects different time periods and countries.

Author : Colum Kenny
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429921780
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Silence written by Colum Kenny and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates that silence is eloquent, powerful, beautiful and even dangerous. It surrounds and permeates our daily lives. Drawing on a wide range of cross-cultural, literary and historical sources, the author explores the uses and abuses of silence. He explains how silence is not associated with solitude alone but has a much broader value within society.The main themes of The Power of Silence are positive and negative uses of silence, and the various ways in which silence has been understood culturally, socially and spiritually. The book's objectives are to equip people with a better appreciation of the value of silence and to enable them to explore its benefits and uses more easily for themselves.

Author : Elaine Hedges Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies Towson State University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199762759
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Listening to Silences : New Essays in Feminist Criticism written by Elaine Hedges Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies Towson State University and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994-09-22 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brett J. Esaki
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190251425
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enfolding Silence written by Brett J. Esaki and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Japanese Americans developed complex silences in response to social and religious marginalization. Utilizing case studies and histories of Japanese American arts--gardening, origami, jazz, and monuments. Enfolding Silence employs interdisciplinary analysis to uncover 'non-binary silences' that are mixtures of silences from religion, art, and oppression"--Provided by publisher.