Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech

Index

Abraham, Julie, 13, 200, 202, 208, 251n18 Adachi, Ken, 102 “Agency via Guilt in Anchee Min’s Red Azalea” (Xu), 195 Alexander, Meena, 225 American-feminine, 22–23 Amott, Teresa, 40–44, 46 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 5, 8–9, 11–12 Articulate Silences (Cheung), 19 Asian American women: and Christianity , 50–51, 176, 180; “degendering ” of, 196; equated with national bodies, 179; excluded from immigration, 44, 50; and feminism, 56, 221–25; in internment camps, 91; invisibility of, 11; prostitution of, 47–51; sexuality of, 50, 173–74; stereotypes of, 49, 174, 252n21 Asian Americans: attacks on, 40–41, 102, 131–32, 241n5; “bachelor societies,” 44; and discriminatory U.S. policy, 42; dominant view of, 6; enslavement of, 35, 48; exploitation of, 35–38; feminization of, 51–52, 179, 238n26; historical silence of, 71; internment of, 28, 75–128; invisibility of, 11, 33, 131; labor strikes, 35, 53–55; literary attacks on, 131–32; litigation on behalf of, 55, 244n19; nationalism , 56; as non-Americans, 216; politics of, 236n12; problematic use of term, 3–7, 33–34; selfemployment , 38; sexism of, 132– 33; as social construct, 4, 105; stereotypes of, 6, 19, 49; unionization of, 37. See also Chinese Americans; immigration; intern- ment; Japanese Americans; Korean Americans “Asian Pacific American Women and Feminism” (Yamada), 100–01 Asian Pacific Americans. See Asian Americans “bachelor societies,” 44 Bammer, Angelika, 139, 144 Bartky, Sandra Lee, 229n12 Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion (Bow), viii Bow, Leslie, viii “broken” English, 82–83 Camp Notes (Yamada), 79–102; American identity in, 98; “broken” English in, 82–83; dichotomous thinking in, 86; family as theme in, 81–93; femininity in, 93; narrative strategies in, 84–86; silence in, 86–87, 94, 96, 98–101; translation in, 82 Canada, anti-Asian policies of, 102– 03 “Cartographies of Struggle” (Mohanty ), 28 Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung: biography of, 134–35, 148, 169; emphasis on audience, 148–49; obscurity of, 129–31; performance art of, 135, 147; and silence, 135 Chan, Sucheng, 34, 35, 38–41, 44, 45, 52–53, 55, 69 Chang, Juliana, 154 Chauncey, George, 12 Cheng, Lucie, 47 Cheung, King-Kok: and Obasan, 107, 114, 120, 126, 132–33; and silence , 19; and speech, 218; and TheWomanWarrior, 27 Chin, Frank, 131–32, 234n36 China Men (Kingston): American identity in, 41; exclusionary laws in, 42–43; gender transgressions in, 52, 59, 238n28; as history, 32; race in, 70; silence in, 52, 56, 58– 60, 71, 239n31; violence in, 41– 42 Chinese Americans: attacks on, 41– 42; discriminatory U.S. policies against, 42–43; exclusion from history, 32; exploitation of, 35, 237n16; female subjectivity, 18– 19; feminization of, 52; immigration , compared to Japanese Americans , 35; labor strikes, 53; prostitution , 47–48, 237n20, 237n22; stereotypes of, 49, 238n23. See also Asian Americans; immigration; specific works Chinese Cultural Revolution. See Min, Anchee; Red Azalea Chinese Exclusion Acts, 20, 37, 43 Choi, Chungmoo, 169 Chow, Esther Ngan-Ling, 221 Chow, Rey, 204, 211–12, 251n17 Chu, Patricia, 32 Chua, Cheng Lok, 102, 121 Civil Liberties Act, 241n2 Civil Liberties Public Education Fund (CLPEF), 88 “coded” lives, 13 Collins, Patricia Hill, 15, 86, 144 colonization, of Korea, 136–37 “Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and the Fake” (Chin), 131 ComfortWoman (Keller): alienation in, 183; border crossings in, 184; “broken” English in, 185; Christianity in, 180; colonization of Korea in, 180–83; death in, 176, 185–91; and Dictée, 175, 184; double voice of, 184; homosexuality in, 192; memory as resistance in, 190–91; narrative strategies in, 175, 184–89, 192; national con268 i n d e x sciousness in, 178–79, 183, 191; sexuality in, 175, 177, 182, 192; silence in, 174–75, 180–83, 185, 190–92; speech in, 177; truth in, 176, 185, 188; and TheWomanWarrior , 176, 249n6 comfort women, 177–78, 249n8, 250n10 Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC), 76–77, 241n2 Compositional Subjects (Kang), 71–72 concentration camps. See internment; Japanese Americans Constituting Americans (Wald), 72 culture of dissemblance, 10 D’Emilio, John, 12 Dhairyam, Sagri, 15 dichotomous thinking, 3–4, 8, 15, 33; in Camp Notes, 86, 155, 162– 63, 249n4; and racism, 240n35; in Red Azalea, 198–99, 202–03, 205, 210–12 dictation. See Dictée; translation Dictée (Cha): and audience, 149–54; borderlands in, 164–67, 248n24; “broken” English in, 171; characters in, 140; colonization of Korea in, 136–37, 140–41, 143, 158; dictation in, 156–58; displacement in, 136–40, 144...