Foreign Accents Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity

Name: Foreign Accents Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity
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ISBN: 9780199730339

ISBN-10: 0199730334

ISBN-13: 9780199730339

Edition: 2010

Authors: Steven G. Yao

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Foreign Accents sets forth a historical poetics of verse by writers of Chinese descent in the U.S. from the early twentieth century to the present. With readings of works by Ezra Pound, Li-young Lee, Marilyn Chin, Ha Jin, and John Yau, this study charts the dimensions of Asian American verse as an evolving and contested counterpoetic formation.

Book details

List price: $84.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/27/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Introduction: 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


Interchapter: Form the Language of Race to Poetics of Ethnicity: The Rise of Asian American Verse



ï¿½A Voice from Chinaï¿½: Ha Jin and the Cultural Politics of Antisocialist Realism



The Precision of Persimmons: Li-Young Lee, Ethnic Identity, and the Limits of Lyric Testimony



ï¿½Are You Hate Speech or Are You a Lullabyï¿½: Marilyn Chin and the Politics of Form in Chinese/American Verse



ï¿½The Owner of One Pock-Marked Tongueï¿½: John Yau and the Logic of Ethnic Abstraction


Conclusion: Chinese/American Verse in the Age of Postethnicity?


Notes


Bibliography


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