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Thinking its presence : form, race, and subjectivity in contemporary Asian American poetry /

When will American poetry and poetics stop viewing poetry by racialized persons as a secondary subject within the field? Dorothy J. Wang makes an impassioned case that now is the time. Thinking Its Presence calls for a radical rethinking of how American poetry is being read today, offering its own r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wang, Dorothy J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
Colección:Asian America.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : aesthetics contra "identity" in contemporary poetry studies
  • Metaphor, desire and assimilation in the poetry of Li-Young Lee
  • Reading too much into : Marilyn Chin, translation, and Asian American poetry in the "post-race" era
  • Irony's barbarian voices in the poetry of Marilyn Chin
  • Undercover Asian : John Yau, parody, and the politics of ethnic identification and self-identification
  • Genghis Chan : parodying private eye
  • Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge's poetics of contingency and relationality
  • Subjunctive subjects : Pamela Lu's Pamela : a novel and the poetics and politics of diaspora
  • Epilogue : American poetry and poetry criticism in the twenty-first century?