Breaking Silence through Storytelling : When You Trap a Tiger

KOHLOVÁ, Petra. Breaking Silence through Storytelling : When You Trap a Tiger. In In/Outside the Frame Conference, 16th International Cultural Studies Conference & 5th International Conference on Linguistics and Language Teaching and Learning, 10th–11th November 2022, University of Pardubice, Pardubice. 2022.

Basic information

Original name

Breaking Silence through Storytelling : When You Trap a Tiger

Authors

KOHLOVÁ, Petra

Edition

In/Outside the Frame Conference, 16th International Cultural Studies Conference & 5th International Conference on Linguistics and Language Teaching and Learning, 10th–11th November 2022, University of Pardubice, Pardubice, 2022

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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60206 Specific literatures

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

provocative silence; young adult; Asian American; silence; agency

Tags

International impact, Reviewed

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Abstract

V originále

Even in the twenty-first century, Asian Americans are still finding their voices of expression: be it in the film industry where the Silent Asian trope is rampant or in the critically acclaimed collection of essays Minor Feelings (2020) by Carthy Park Hong, which criticizes silences imposed on the Asian American community through, for example, the model minority myth. In addition, authors and scholars frequently expose the issues of silence in Asian American literature. One of the breaking points concerning ethnic and gendered silences in literary criticism was the publication of Articulate Silences by King-Kok Cheung (1993) dealing with canonical Asian American female authors and the forms of silences they utilize. Cheung defined three broad categories of silence: rhetorical, provocative, and attentive. Her criticism articulated some of the pressing issues of the Asian American community of that time and times past, yet the stereotype of silent Asians still prevails. Recently, the authors of Asian American YA fiction address the issue of the silence of second- or third-generation Asian American children. Employing Cheung’s notion of Provocative Silence, defined as: “parental and historical silence that spurs creativity,” the talk focuses on the YA novel When you Trap a Tiger (2020) by Tae Keller (winner of the 2021 Asian Pacific American Literature Award) discerning the ways silence gives way to the creativity of storytelling, helping vocalize the identity of children growing up.

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Links

MUNI/A/1478/2021, interní kód MU

Name: Paradigms, strategies and developments - Anglophone literary and cultural studies II Investor: Masaryk University