Racial Things, Racial Forms Objecthood in Avant-Garde Asian American Poetry

Name: Racial Things, Racial Forms Objecthood in Avant-Garde Asian American Poetry
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ISBN: 9781609380861

ISBN-10: 160938086X

ISBN-13: 9781609380861

Edition: 2012

Authors: Joseph Jonghyun Jeon

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InRacial Things, Racial Forms, Joseph Jonghyun Jeon focuses on a coterie of underexamined contemporary Asian American poets—Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Myung Mi Kim, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and John Yau—who reject many of the characteristics of traditional minority writing, in particular the language of identity politics, which tends to challenge political marginalization without contesting more fundamental assumptions about the construction of racial form. In the poets’ various treatments ofthings(that is, objects of art), one witnesses a confluence of heretofore discrete factors: the avant-garde interest in objecthood and the racial question of objectification. By refashioning avant-garde…

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Publication date: 3/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Joseph Jonghyun Jeonis a visiting associate professor of English at Pomona College. He is a poetry editor forKaya, a publisher of Asian/diasporic literature and culture, and serves on the editorial board of1913: A Journal of Forms.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Seeing Race in Things



Black Things, White Things: Objecthood in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Language Art



Speaking in Tongues: Myung Mi Kims Poetics of Mouth



The Body of the Book: Positioned Phenomenology in Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's Art-Book Collaborations



Reflections of Things: Ekphrasis and Racial Iconology in Cathy Song and John Yau


Coda: Hating Yoko Ono and the New Yellow Peril


Notes


Bibliography


Index