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

Author/Contributor(s):	Cheung, King-Kok
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	07/08/1993
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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...