Essays about: "picture brides"

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  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