| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 326 pages) |
| Series |
Global Asias |
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Global Asias.
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| Contents |
To be (or not to be) the poet : the cultural politics of verse in Asian American literature -- Toward a prehistory of Asian American verse : Pound, Cathay, and the poetics of Chineseness -- Chinese/American verse in transnational perspective : racial protest and the poems of Angel Island -- From the language of race to the poetics of ethnicity : the rise of Asian American verse -- A voice from China : Ha Jin and the cultural politics of antisocialist realism -- The precision of persimmons : Li-Young Lee, ethnic identity and the limits of lyric testimony -- Are you hate speech or are you a lullaby? : Marilyn Chin and the politics of form in Chinese/American verse -- The owner of one pock-marked tongue : John Yau and the logic of ethnic abstraction -- Chinese/American verse in the age of postethnicity? |
| Summary |
This book undertakes linguistically informed analyses to examine the various transpacific signifying strategies by which different poets of Chinese descent in the United States have sought to employ or represent elements of a particular cultural tradition in their articulations of an ethnic subjectivity, including writings entirely in Chinese |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-317) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American poetry -- Chinese American authors -- History and criticism
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American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Chinese Americans in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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American poetry
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American poetry -- Chinese American authors
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Chinese Americans in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199780495 |
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0199780498 |
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9780199730339 |
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0199730334 |
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9780199866540 |
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0199866546 |
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