Does Women’s Breaking Silence Matter Anyway? A Critical Reading of Selected Asian-(American) Works
Does Women’s Breaking Silence Matter Anyway? A Critical Reading of Selected Asian-(American) Works

Summary/Abstract: This essay discusses feminist readings of the concept of silence; then it analyzes women’s silence in three Asian-(American) works. ‘Silence’ is discussed from different perspectives such as the context, which obliges women to silence themselves willingly, or situations where women are silenced, forcefully, by external factors, and it investigates how women seek to voice their oppression. The analysis will virtually open a new horizon as the essay shows whether attempts at vocalization are possibly rewarded, or punished. Not only does this essay cover works by males as well as females, but it also covers a number of genres such as the novella, the short story, and the novel. This essay discusses Junzo Shono’s The Dance (trans., 1992), a Japanese short story, Julie Shigekuni’s A Bridge Between Us (1995), a JapaneseAmerican novel, and Su Tong’s Raise The Red Lantern (trans., 1993), a Chinese novella.

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