Articulate Silences

Author : King-Kok Cheung
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501721120

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Articulate Silences by King-Kok Cheung Pdf

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 : Helena Grice
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719057639

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Beginning Ethnic American Literatures by Helena Grice Pdf

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
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781587294433

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Tell This Silence by Patti Duncan Pdf

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,Edward J.W. Park Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 3039 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216050186

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Asian Americans [3 volumes] by Xiaojian Zhao,Edward J.W. Park Ph.D. Pdf

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
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252066669

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Other Sisterhoods by Sandra Kumamoto Stanley Pdf

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 : Shiv Kumar Kumar
Publisher : [Calcutta] : A Writers Workshop Publication
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : India
ISBN : LCCN:72918001

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Articulate Silences by Shiv Kumar Kumar Pdf

Author : Helene Carol Weldt-Basson
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838641725

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Subversive Silences by Helene Carol Weldt-Basson Pdf

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 : Daniel McKay
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781531505172

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Beyond Hostile Islands by Daniel McKay Pdf

Offers a fascinating window into how the fraught politics of apology in the East Asian region have been figured in anglophone literary fiction. The Pacific War, 1941-1945, was fought across the world’s largest ocean and left a lasting imprint on anglophone literary history. However, studies of that imprint or of individual authors have focused on American literature without drawing connections to parallel traditions elsewhere. Beyond Hostile Islands contributes to ongoing efforts by Australasian scholars to place their national cultures in conversation with those of the United States, particularly regarding studies of the ideologies that legitimize warfare. Consecutively, the book examines five of the most significant historical and thematic areas associated with the war: island combat, economic competition, internment, imprisonment, and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Throughout, the central issue pivots around the question of how or whether at all New Zealand fiction writing differs from that of the United States. Can a sense of islandness, the ‘tyranny of distance,’ Māori cultural heritage, or the political legacies of the nuclear-free movement provide grounds for distinctive authorial insights? As an opening gambit, Beyond Hostile Islands puts forward the term ‘ideological coproduction’ to describe how a territorially and demographically more minor national culture may accede to the essentials of a given ideology while differing in aspects that reflect historical and provincial dimensions that are important to it. Appropriately, the literary texts under examination are set in various locales, including Japan, the Solomon Islands, New Zealand, New Mexico, Ontario, and the Marshall Islands. The book concludes in a deliberately open-ended pose, with the full expectation that literary writing on the Pacific War will grow in range and richness, aided by the growth of Pacific Studies as a research area.

Author : Colum Kenny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429921780

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The Power of Silence by Colum Kenny Pdf

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,Austin Shelley Fisher Fishkin Professor of American Studies and English University of Texas
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994-09-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780199762750

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Listening to Silences : New Essays in Feminist Criticism by Elaine Hedges Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies Towson State University,Austin Shelley Fisher Fishkin Professor of American Studies and English University of Texas Pdf

Author : Holly E. Martin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786488490

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Writing Between Cultures by Holly E. Martin Pdf

Hybrid narrative forms are used frequently by authors exploring or living in multicultural societies as a method of reflecting multicultural lives. This timely book examines this rhetorical strategy, which permits an author to bridge cultures via literary technique. Strategies covered include multilingualism, magical realism, ironic humor, the use of mythological figures from the characters' heritage cultures, and the presentation of different perspectives on landscapes and other spaces as related to ethnicity. By investigating elements of ethnic literature comparatively, this book reaches beyond the boundaries of any one ethnic group, a vital quality in today's world.

Author : Brett J. Esaki
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190251420

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Enfolding Silence by Brett J. Esaki Pdf

"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.

Author : Shiv K. Kumar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0882534998

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Articulate Silences by Shiv K. Kumar Pdf

Author : Patricia Jagentowicz Mills
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271042169

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Feminist Interpretations of G. W. F. Hegel by Patricia Jagentowicz Mills Pdf

Author : Ariana Mangual Figueroa
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452964959

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Knowing Silence by Ariana Mangual Figueroa Pdf

Learning from children about citizenship status and how it shapes their schooling There is a persistent assumption in the field of education that children are largely unaware of their immigration status and its implications. In Knowing Silence, Ariana Mangual Figueroa challenges this “myth of ignorance.” By listening carefully to both the speech and significant silences of six Latina students from mixed-immigration-status families, from elementary school into middle school and beyond, she reveals the complex ways young people understand and negotiate immigration status and its impact on their lives. Providing these children with iPod Touches to record their own conversations, Mangual Figueroa observes when and how they choose to talk about citizenship at home, at school, and in public spaces. Analyzing family conversations about school forms, in-class writing assignments, encounters with the police, and applications for college, she demonstrates that children grapple with the realities of citizenship from an early age. Educators who underestimate children’s knowledge, Mangual Figueroa shows, can marginalize or misunderstand these students and their families. Combining significant empirical findings with reflections on the ethical questions surrounding research and responsibility, Mangual Figueroa models new ways scholars might collaborate with educators, children, and families. With rigorous and innovative ethnographic methodologies, Knowing Silence makes audible the experiences of immigrant-origin students in their own terms, ultimately offering teachers and researchers a crucial framework for understanding citizenship in the contemporary classroom.