Lois-Ann Yamanaka's women : transcending the spaces of bodily contamination
This thesis examines key texts by Lois-Ann Yamanaka associated with women’s subservience in post-colonial Hawai’i. Her fiction situates the body naturalistically, but also uses the body to convey themes of spiritual redemption. My analysis concentrates on three of Yamanaka’s novels: Blu’s Hanging (1...
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FIU Digital Commons
2005
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| Online Access: | http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3490 |