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Chinese Silence, Asian American Critique
- The Massachusetts Review
- Massachusetts Review, Inc.
- Volume 59, Number 4, Winter 2018
- pp. 613-617
- 10.1353/mar.2018.0092
- Article
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Abstract:
Timothy Yu uses as his jumping off point the imaginary cultural metaphor of Chinese 'Silences,' a trope that he mocks in his poetry book 100 Chinese Silences. Moving from this imagined idea to the reality of silencing Asian voices, Yu makes a compelling argument for the necessity of speaking up.