Essays about: "Julie Otsuka"

Found 4 essays containing the words Julie Otsuka.

1. 1. Enacting the Silence of Subaltern Women : Julie Otsuka and the Japanese Picture Brides

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Author : Eva Leonte; [2017]
   Keywords : Otsuka; migrant literature; picture brides; subalternity; feminist theory; communal voice; speech-act criticism; illocutionary force.;

   Abstract : It is by now a truth universally acknowledged that the world’s subaltern women (in Gayatri Spivak’s understanding of the term) cannot make their voices heard, that what we think we know about them are mostly stereotypes of our own making. It is likewise acknowledged that literature has a privileged status when it comes to representing these women, given its unique prerogative to retrieve their traces and convey their subjectivity through imagining. READ MORE

3. 2. TRANSFORMATION OF THE SELF: A Study of Submissiveness, Trauma, Guilt and Shame in Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor Was Divine (2002)

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Ingegerd Stenport; [2016-10-07]
   Keywords : Julie Otsuka; When the Emperor Was Divine; Sansei generation; racism;

   Abstract : The internment of Japanese-American civilians during the Second World War caused many of the interned traumatic experiences. This essay is a contribution to the discussion of trauma theory in literature. READ MORE

4. 3. Symbols as a means of emotional enhancement in Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor Was Divine

   University essay from Sektionen för lärande och miljö

   Author : Emina Selimovic; [2014]
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5. 4. An American Dream torn to pieces : An essay analysing Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor was Divine

   University essay from Sektionen för Lärarutbildning

   Author : Carl-Johan Andersson; [2011]
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