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Williams, Cynthia M.

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Diaspora literature: Unexpressed discourse and performativity in "Dictee" and "Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China".

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Diaspora literature: Unexpressed discourse and performativity in "Dictee" and "Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China"./
Author:	Williams, Cynthia M.
Description:	321 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-04, Section: A, page: 1303.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-04A.
Subject:	Literature, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3405314
ISBN:	9781109706710

Diaspora literature: Unexpressed discourse and performativity in "Dictee" and "Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China".
Williams, Cynthia M.

Diaspora literature: Unexpressed discourse and performativity in "Dictee" and "Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China". - 321 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-04, Section: A, page: 1303.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri - Kansas City, 2009.

This study focuses on the construction of self and home in the Asian Diaspora literature of Theresa Hak Cha, author of DICTEE, and Hauling Nieh, author of Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China . The study particularly engages the theory of "unexpressed discourse" and how these texts represent unexpressed discourse and the finding of voice through forms that exist beyond discourse. In DICTEE , this dissertation analyzes the condition of transcendental homelessness as "unexpressed" discourse, concluding with the construction of a textual community that serves to shelter and articulate the diasporic self. In Mulberry and Peach, the study involves the fragmentation of the migrant's mind and body, and how self-expression can occur through the body's performance of race and gender in diasporic space. In this discussion, Judith Butler's theory of gender performance is highlighted to explain how performance supersedes discourse in self-expression. In exploring "unexpressed" discourse, this dissertation delves into feminist readings of Michel Foucault and includes the theorists Mikhail Bakhtin, Jaques Lacon, Georg Lukcas, Tina Chen, Susan Bordo, James Clifford, David Leiwei Li, Stuart Hall, Homi Bhahba, Rey Chow, Caren Kaplan, Trinh T. Minh-ha and Tzevtan Tordorov.

ISBN: 9781109706710Subjects--Topical Terms:

624011
Literature, Modern.

Diaspora literature: Unexpressed discourse and performativity in "Dictee" and "Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China".
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