Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006. / Title from title screen. Layli Phillips, committee chair; Margaret Mills Harper, Carol Marsh-Lockett, committee members. Electronic text (64 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Apr. 20, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-64).

Zhou, Yi. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 153-168). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.2 / Table of Contents --- p.6 / Introduction --- p.8 / Chapter Chapter One: --- Return to the Parole --- p.22 / Chapter 1.1 --- The Language Dilemma and Appeal of Asian American Literature --- p.23 / "Language: Community, Nation and Power" --- p.24 / Claiming a Right to Standard English --- p.29 / Claiming a Right to Multiple Tongues --- p.32 / Problems with Previously Mentioned Ways of Resistance --- p.36 / Chapter 1.2 --- Kingston´ةs Language Choice and Writing Strategies --- p.40 / Poetic Language: From Kristeva to Kingston --- p.41 / Heterogeneity: Kingston as a Bilingual Writer --- p.44 / Diversity： A New Fusion Language --- p.51 / Dialogism: From Words to Culture --- p.58 / Chapter Chapter Two: --- Return to the Body --- p.73 / Chapter 2.1 --- From Parole to the Body --- p.76 / "Langue, Parole, Subject" --- p.77 / Deconstruction of the Subject: The Maternal Body --- p.79 / “Chora´ح-- A Bodily Metaphor for Resistance to Langue --- p.81 / Chapter 2.2 --- Body-Based Writing --- p.83 / Let the Body Speak --- p.84 / "Female Writers, Body Consciousness" --- p.87 / Kingston´ةs Bodily and Life Experience --- p.90 / Chapter 2.3 --- Gaze on the Body´ؤKingston's Body Writing on Male --- p.93 / Objectification: Seeing and Being Seen --- p.94 / Objectified Body-From Body to Flesh --- p.96 / Objectification as Alienation --- p.99 / Body´ةs Spontaneous Resistance: Pain --- p.103 / Chapter Chapter Three: --- Return to the Minor --- p.111 / Chapter 3.1 --- Speech Act: Another View on Resistance to Langue --- p.113 / Austin: Speech Is Itself a Form of Action --- p.113 / "Derrida: “Iterability""" --- p.116 / Judith Butler： A Politics of the Performative --- p.119 / Chapter 3.2 --- The Revolt of Minor Tongue: On Language Appropriation --- p.122 / "Performing a “Twin Skin""" --- p.123 / The Stereotypical Linguistic Reality --- p.127 / "Insurrectionary Speech Act: Towards a “Parasitic"" Language" --- p.130 / Chapter 3.3 --- One Man Play: On Minor Writing as Felicitous Political Speech-Acts? --- p.134 / A Performance of Identity Politics --- p.136 / Minor Writing: A Site for Felicitous Performance? --- p.138 / Conclusion --- p.145 / Bibliography --- p.153

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University of Pennsylvania. / Includes bibliographical references.