In this pathbreaking book, King-Kok Cheung sheds new light on the thematic and rhetoncal uses of silence in fiction by three Asian American women: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, and JoyKogawa.

This book bridges comparative literature and American studies by using an intercultural and bilingual approach to Chinese American literature.

This volume collects, in one place, a breadth of information about Asian American literary and cultural history as well as the authors and texts that best define it.