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Tell This Silence

Author : Patti Duncan
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587294435
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 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.

Making More Waves

Author : Elaine H. Kim
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807059135
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Making More Waves written by Elaine H. Kim and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of autobiographical writings, short stories, poetry, essays, and photos by and about Asian American women.

Images of Asian American Women by Asian American Women Writers

Author : Esther Mikyung Ghymn
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Images of Asian American Women by Asian American Women Writers by : Esther Mikyung Ghymn

Download or read book Images of Asian American Women by Asian American Women Writers written by Esther Mikyung Ghymn and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study which examines the images of Asian American women as presented by prominent Asian American women writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Monica Sone, Mary Paik Lee, Wakao Yamauchi, Hisaye Yamamoto, Yoshiko Uchida, Jade Snow Wong, Kim Ronyoung, Ruthanne Lum McCunn, and Kathy Wong. By creating new images of mothers, daughters, children, wives, madwomen, prostitutes and pariahs, these writers have written their stories as a way of self-confirmation and a way to correct their stereotypical images. From these images we discover new meaning and assign new significance to Asian American women.

Asian American Women Writers

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Chelsea House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Asian American Women Writers written by Harold Bloom and published by Chelsea House. This book was released on 1997 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the lives and works of twelve Asian-American women writers of English through biographical information, a selection of critical excerpts, and complete bibliographies.

Short Girls

Author : Bich Minh Nguyen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101082259
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Short Girls written by Bich Minh Nguyen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of an American Book Award Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Library Journal A novel about two Vietnamese-American sisters, longtime rivals, growing closer as they "grapplewith their upbringing, their present circumstances and their shortcomings" (Kirkus Reviews) Called "A writer to watch, a tremendous talent" by the Chicago Tribune, Bich Minh Nguyen makes her fiction debut with the deeply moving and entertaining story of two Vietnamese sisters. Aside from their petite stature, Van and Linny Luong couldn't be more different. Diligent, unassuming Van works as an immigration lawyer in the Michigan suburbs where she resides with her handsome, Chinese-American lawyer husband. Beautiful, fashionable Linny lives in Chicago and has drifted into an affair with a married man. When Van's picture-perfect marriage collapses and Linny finds herself grappling to escape her dead-end life, the long-estranged sisters are unable to confide in one another- until their eccentric inventor father calls them back home to the Vietnamese American community they fled long ago.

Chinese Women Writers on the Environment

Author : Dong Isbister
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476666989
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Women Writers on the Environment written by Dong Isbister and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories, prose and poems in this anthology offer readers a unique and generous array of women's experiences in China. In a world that is rapidly modernizing, these writings attempt to reconcile with the ever-changing people, plants, beasts and environment. After five years of painstaking collection and translation, the authors present these stories of strength and sadness, defiance and resilience, urban and village life, from the days of the cultural revolution to the present. Whether a house full of hawks and eagles, a stubborn cow, or a defiant elderly couple sabotaging a lumber operation, these stories express powerful visions of the earth interwoven with human memory.

A New History of Asian America

Author : Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135071063
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book A New History of Asian America written by Shelley Sang-Hee Lee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New History of Asian America is a fresh and up-to-date history of Asians in the United States from the late eighteenth century to the present. Drawing on current scholarship, Shelley Lee brings forward the many strands of Asian American history, highlighting the distinctive nature of the Asian American experience while placing the narrative in the context of the major trajectories and turning points of U.S. history. Covering the history of Filipinos, Koreans, Asian Indians, and Southeast Indians as well as Chinese and Japanese, the book gives full attention to the diversity within Asian America. A robust companion website features additional resources for students, including primary documents, a timeline, links, videos, and an image gallery. From the building of the transcontinental railroad to the celebrity of Jeremy Lin, people of Asian descent have been involved in and affected by the history of America. A New History of Asian America gives twenty-first-century students a clear, comprehensive, and contemporary introduction to this vital history.

The Weight of Our Sky

Author : Hanna Alkaf
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534426094
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book The Weight of Our Sky written by Hanna Alkaf and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amidst the Chinese-Malay conflict in Kuala Lumpur in 1969, sixteen-year-old Melati must overcome prejudice, violence, and her own OCD to find her way back to her mother.

Teaching Anglophone South Asian Women Writers

Author : Deepika Bahri
Publisher : Modern Language Association
ISBN 13 : 1603294910
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Anglophone South Asian Women Writers written by Deepika Bahri and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global and cosmopolitan since the late nineteenth century, anglophone South Asian women's writing has flourished in many genres and locations, encompassing diverse works linked by issues of language, geography, history, culture, gender, and literary tradition. Whether writing in the homeland or in the diaspora, authors offer representations of social struggle and inequality while articulating possibilities for resistance. In this volume experienced instructors attend to the style and aesthetics of the texts as well as provide necessary background for students. Essays address historical and political contexts, including colonialism, partition, migration, ecological concerns, and evolving gender roles, and consider both traditional and contemporary genres such as graphic novels, chick lit, and Instapoetry. Presenting ideas for courses in Asian studies, women's studies, postcolonial literature, and world literature, this book asks broadly what it means to study anglophone South Asian women's writing in the United States, in Asia, and around the world.

Filthy Fictions

Author : Monica Chiu
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759104563
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Filthy Fictions written by Monica Chiu and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2004 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filthy Fictions addresses Asian American literature by women to explore and explode the sedimented and solidified meanings we have created about 'Asian American' and 'dirt' through dialogues that not only cross disciplinary and institutional formations and borders, but also question the very borders and territories upon which these arguments may be founded. Expertly questioning the construction of the ethnic body, the book discusses critical discourses in ethnic and feminist studies around the topic of identity (re)production and transnational representation.

Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics

Author : Lynn Fujiwara
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295744375
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)

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Book Synopsis Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics by : Lynn Fujiwara

Download or read book Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics written by Lynn Fujiwara and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics brings together groundbreaking essays that speak to the relationship between Asian American feminisms, feminist of color work, and transnational feminist scholarship. This collection, featuring work by both senior and rising scholars, considers topics including the politics of visibility, histories of Asian American participation in women of color political formations, accountability for Asian American “settler complicities” and cross-racial solidarities, and Asian American community-based strategies against state violence as shaped by and tied to women of color feminisms. Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics provides a deep conceptual intervention into the theoretical underpinnings of Asian American studies; ethnic studies; women’s, gender, and sexual studies; as well as cultural studies in general.

Compositional Subjects

Author : Laura Hyun Yi Kang
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822383519
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Compositional Subjects written by Laura Hyun Yi Kang and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-19 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Compositional Subjects Laura Hyun Yi Kang explores the ways that Asian/American women have been figured by mutually imbricated modes of identity formation, representation, and knowledge production. Kang’s project is simultaneously interdisciplinary scholarship at its best and a critique of the very disciplinary formations she draws upon. The book opens by tracking the jagged emergence of “Asian American women” as a distinct social identity over the past three decades. Kang then directs critical attention to how the attempts to compose them as discrete subjects of consciousness, visibility, and action demonstrate a broader, ongoing tension between socially particularized subjects and disciplinary knowledges. In addition to the shifting meanings and alignments of “Asian,” “American,” and “women,” the book examines the discourses, political and economic conditions, and institutional formations that have produced Asian/American women as generic authors, as visibly desirable and desiring bodies, as excludable aliens and admissible citizens of the United States, and as the proper labor for transnational capitalism. In analyzing how these enfigurations are constructed and apprehended through a range of modes including autobiography, cinematography, historiography, photography, and ethnography, Kang directs comparative attention to the very terms of their emergence as Asian/American women in specific disciplines. Finally, Kang concludes with a detailed examination of selected literary and visual works by Korean women artists located in the United States and Canada, works that creatively and critically contend with the problematics of identification and representation that are explored throughout the book. By underscoring the forceful and contentious struggles that animate all of these compositional gestures, Kang proffers Asian/American women as a vexing and productive figure for cultural, political and epistemological critique.

Making Waves

Author : Asian Women United of California
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780807059050
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Making Waves written by Asian Women United of California and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 1989 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of autobiographical writings, short stories, poetry, essays, and photos by and about Asian American women.

Diasporic Representations

Author : Pin-chia Feng
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643108311
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Book Synopsis Diasporic Representations by : Pin-chia Feng

Download or read book Diasporic Representations written by Pin-chia Feng and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2010 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Diasporic Representations, author Pin-chia Feng examines the stratification of various diasporic subjectivities through close reading fiction by Chinese American women writers of different social and class backgrounds. Deploying a strategy of "attentive reading", Feng engages the intersecting issues of historicity, spatiality, and bodily imagination from diasporic and feminist perspectives to illuminate the dynamics of deterritorialization and reterritorialization in Chinese American novels in this transnational age. The authors studied include Diana Chang, Edith Eaton, Yan Geling, Nieh Hualing, Gish Jen, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Aimee Liu, Fae Myenne Ng, Sigrid Nunez, Han Suyin, and Amy Tan.

Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction

Author : Noriko Mizuta Lippit
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317466942
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Book Synopsis Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction by : Noriko Mizuta Lippit

Download or read book Japanese Women Writers: Twentieth Century Short Fiction written by Noriko Mizuta Lippit and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection includes translated works by Japanese women writers that deal with the experiences of modern women. The work of these women represents current feminist perception, imagination and thought. "Here are Japanese women in infinite and fascinating variety -- ardent lovers, lonely single women, political activists, betrayed wives, loyal wives, protective mothers, embittered mothers, devoted daughters. ... a new sense of the richness of Japanese women's experience, a new appreciation for feelings too long submerged". -- The New York Times Book Review

A Tale for the Time Being

Author : Ruth Ozeki
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101606258
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book A Tale for the Time Being written by Ruth Ozeki and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness Finalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award “A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.” In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who’s lived more than a century. A diary is Nao’s only solace—and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox—possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao’s drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future. Full of Ozeki’s signature humor and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home.

3 Asian American Writers Speak Out on Feminism

Author : Mitsuye Yamada
Publisher : Red Letter Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book 3 Asian American Writers Speak Out on Feminism written by Mitsuye Yamada and published by Red Letter Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Writing. Asian American studies. "I had supposed that I was practicing passive resistance to stereotyping, but it was so passive no one noticed I was resisting. To finally recognize our own invisibility is to finally be on the path toward visibility. Invisibility is not a natural state for anyone"-from 3 ASIAN AMERICAN WRITERS SPEAK OUT ON FEMINISM.