Using the theme of SILENCE, write a 3-4 page essay (NO A.I. or plagiarism) where you discuss the role of SILENCE in Woman Warrior and 1 other piece of your choice from this unit. Why do you think silence, solitude, and quiet play an important role in Asian American literature? Be sure to use specific examples from the texts. Use 1 or 2 database articles to support your case. You are also welcome to use the articles and timeline from this unit to support your case.
Be sure to include the following:
APA or MLA scholarly writing with
Specific quotes and ideas from the book and other pieces of lit. with in-text citations
A Bibliography for APA or Works Cited page for MLA (That will be its own page and does not count as the page length) with all literature sources listed plus your 1 to 2 database articles listed.
3-4 pages total.
TIMELINE:
1763 Filipino seamen working on a Spanish galleon establish a
village in the Louisiana bayous.
1784 The United States–China trade begins with the departure of
the Empress of China from New York, which leads to the
arrival of Chinese immigrants, along with Chinese goods, to
the United States.
1849 The start of the California Gold Rush draws the fi rst signifi cant
number of immigrants to the United States.
1854 The California Supreme Court decides in the case of People
v. Hall that the Chinese should be classifi ed as “Indian” and
are therefore not eligible to provide witness against a white
person.
1868 The signing of the Burlingame Treaty between the United
States and China establishes formal friendly relations between
the two nations and encourages immigration from China to
the United States.
1875 Under the guise of preventing the transporting of prostitutes
to the United States, the passage of the Page Act by Congress
effectively prohibits the immigration of women from China to
the United States.
1882 The Chinese Exclusion Act is the fi rst law to signifi cantly
restrict immigration and eliminates most new Chinese
immigration to the United States.
1898 With the signing of the Treaty of Paris at the conclusion of
the Spanish-American War, the United States acquires the
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island territories of the Philippines (and other territories in
the Caribbean Sea and Pacifi c Ocean regions).
The United States annexes the Kingdom of Hawai‘i. Queen
Lili‘uokalani , Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen
1899 Onoto Watanna (aka Winnifred Eaton), Miss Nume of Japan
1901–1905 In a series of Supreme Court cases known as the Insular
Cases, concerning the status of the former Spanish colonies
acquired by the United States, the Court designates these
territories, including the Philippines, as “foreign in a domestic
sense.” Residents of these territories are granted the status of
“American nationals” rather than U.S. citizens.
1907 The signing of the Gentlemen’s Agreement, a treaty between
the United States and Japan, drastically reduces the number of
Japanese immigrants to the United States; it also cedes control
of the Korean peninsula to Japan, marking the beginning of
decades of brutal colonial rule.
1912 Sui Sin Far (aka Edith Maude Eaton), Mrs. Spring Fragrance
1917 The 1917 Immigration Act restricts immigration from the
“Asiatic Barred Zone.”
1922 The ruling in the Supreme Court case of Ozawa v. U.S. rejects
Takao Ozawa’s petition for U.S. citizenship on the basis that
the Japanese do not qualify as white.
1923 The decision in the Supreme Court case of U.S. v. Bhagat
Singh Thind fi nds that Asian Indians are not eligible for
U.S. citizenship because they are not white.
1924 The passage of the Johnson-Reed Act effectively ends almost
all immigration from Asian countries (as well as from Southern
and Eastern Europe).
1925 Sho ̄son Nagahara, Lament in the Night (in Japanese)
1941 The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a surprise attack on
the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawai‘i. As a result, the
United States enters World War II.
1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066
on February 19, authorizing the creation of military zones and
the relocation of Japanese Americans from areas considered
vital for military security; most are eventually resettled in
internment camps for the duration of World War II.
U.S. and Philippine troops are forced on a brutal trek to
prison camps in the Bataan Province of the Philippines in
what comes to be known the Bataan Death March.
1943 Pardee Lowe, Father and Glorious Descendant
1945 U.S. forces drop atomic bombs in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. World War II ends.
Jade Snow Wong, Fifth Chinese Daughter
1946 The Philippines are granted independence from the United
States.
Carlos Bulosan, America Is in the Heart
1949 The Communist Revolution in China brings Mao Zedong to
power, who establishes the People’s Republic of China.
1950–1953 The Korean War
1952 The passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act, also
known as the McCarran-Walter Act, ends Asian exclusion.
1953 Monica Sone, Nisei Daughter
1955 Representatives from twenty-nine countries meet in Bandung,
Indonesia, for the Afro-Asian Conference.
1957 John Okada, No-No Boy
1958 The musical production of Flower Drum Song, based on the
1957 novel by C. Y. Lee, opens on Broadway.
1959 Hawai‘i is granted U.S. statehood.
1960–1975 The Vietnam War
1964 Richard Kim, The Martyred
The clash between U.S. and North Vietnamese naval forces
in the Gulf of Tonkin leads to the passage of the Tonkin
Gulf Resolution by Congress and increased U.S. military
deployment in Vietnam.
1965 The passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act eliminates
the national origins quota system and extensively restructures
immigration policy
The theater company East West Players is founded in Los
Angeles, California.
1967 The Supreme Court decision in the case of Loving v. Virginia
strikes down bans on interracial marriage.
Daniel K. Inouye, Journey to Washington
1970 Poetry carved into the walls of the then-shuttered Angel
Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay by Chinese
migrants who had been detained there between 1910 and
1940 is discovered.
1972 The Chickencoop Chinaman by Frank Chin is fi rst produced
in New York.
1974 The Supreme Court decision in the case of Lau v. Nichols
fi nds that schools need to provide special services for students
who are unable to speak English.
Frank Chin, Jeffery Paul Chang, Lawson Fusao Inada,
and Shawn Wong, Eds., Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian
American Writers
Frank Chin, The Year of the Dragon
1975–1994 The United States imposes an embargo on Vietnam.
1975 Milton Murayama, All I Asking For Is My Body
1976 Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
1977 Maxine Hong Kingston, China Men
1978 Eric Chock and Darrell Lum found the Bamboo Ridge Press
in Hawai‘i.
1980 The passage of the Refugee Act provides for the systematic
admission, resettlement, and economic assistance of refugees
in the United States.
1981 The English translation of Nieh Hualing’s Mulberry and
Peach (originally published serially in Chinese in the 1970s) is
published.
Cherr í e Moraga and Gloria Anzald ú a, Eds., This Bridge
Called My Back
Joy Kogawa, Obasan
1982 Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dict é e
1983 Dennis Carroll, Kumu Kuhua Plays
Cathy Song, Picture Bride
1988 Congress passes the Civil Liberties Act, which issues an offi cial
apology and provides for reparations for surviving Japanese
internees.
David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfl y
1989 Asian Women United of California, Making Waves
Jeannie Barroga, Walls
Le Ly Hayslip, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
1990 Jessica Hagedorn, Dogeaters
Karen Tei Yamashita, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
1991 The United States closes its military bases in the Philippines.
Frank Chin, Jeffery Paul Chan, Lawson Fusao Inada, and
Shawn Wong, The Big Aiiieeeee!
1994 Sharon Lim-Hing, The Very Inside
1995 Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker
R. Zamora Linmark, Rolling the Rs
1996 Dale Furutani, Death in Little Tokyo
Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Among the White Moon Faces
Helie Lee, Still Life with Rice
1997 Nora Okja Keller, Comfort Woman
1998 The Association for Asian American Studies awards its
prize in literature to Lois-Ann Yamanaka for her novel Blu’s
Hanging (1997) but rescinds it soon after, sparking much
heated controversy.
2001 Terrorists from al-Qaeda launch a series of coordinated attacks
in New York City and the Washington, DC, metropolitan
area, resulting in the deaths of more than 3,000 people.
President George W. Bush declares “war on terror”; the war in
Afghanistan begins.
Congress passes the USA PATRIOT Act.
Phil Yu launches the blog Angry Asian Man.
Playwright David Henry Hwang stages his “revisical” of
Flower Drum Song on Broadway.
2002 Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
2003 United States invades Iraq.
lê th ị di ễ m th ú y, The Gangster We Are All Looking For
Monique Truong, The Book of Salt
2004 Ha Jin, War Trash
2005 The English translation of The Guest (2001) by Korean writer
Hwang Sok-Yong is published.
Gish Jen, The Love Wife
2006 Kip Fulbeck, Part Asian 100% Hapa
2007 Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Ed Lin, This Is a Bust
2008 Mahvish Khan, My Guant á namo Diary
Nam Le, The Boat
Linh Dinh, Love Like Hate
2009 Rajiv Joseph, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
2011 Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
2013 Maxine Hong Kingston receives the National Medal of Arts.
Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being
2014 Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea
