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Moynihan, Susan Muchshima.

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Asian American women's life writing: Autobiographical negotiations of inscrutability.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Asian American women's life writing: Autobiographical negotiations of inscrutability./
Author:	Moynihan, Susan Muchshima.
Description:	198 p.
Notes:	Major Professors: Aparajita Sagar; Susan Curtis.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-03A.
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3166680
ISBN:	9780542022852

Asian American women's life writing: Autobiographical negotiations of inscrutability.
Moynihan, Susan Muchshima.

Asian American women's life writing: Autobiographical negotiations of inscrutability. - 198 p.

Major Professors: Aparajita Sagar; Susan Curtis.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Purdue University, 2004.

This dissertation focuses on the autobiographical constructions of Asian American women as a site of knowledge production and of cultural and national investment. Autobiographical texts, also known as "life writing," embody cultural, national and transnational concerns regarding identity, memory, and history. In addressing the question of what one can come to "know" about Asian American women's experiences and their historical contexts, I argue that a paradox of autobiographical reference characterizes these texts. The racist constructions of Asians and Asian Americans as inscrutable surfaces inform the referential dynamics in autobiographical self-representation; simultaneously, the historical feminization of the East foregrounds the dynamics of access and penetration, dynamics at work in the penetrating gaze of the consumer of autobiography. My dissertation contributes to the identification and analysis of this paradoxical condition of simultaneously embodying an inscrutable, impenetrable surface and the presumed penetrability associated with femininity and personal disclosure. My critical analysis of autobiographical texts by Meena Alexander, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Le Ly Hayslip, Chanrithy Him, Mary Paik Lee, Anchee Min and Yoshiko Uchida offers a way to dismantle traditional distinctions between the discourses of personal identity and history.

ISBN: 9780542022852Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

Asian American women's life writing: Autobiographical negotiations of inscrutability.
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