The ethics & poetics of alterity in Asian American poetry /

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Poetry by Asian American writers has had a significant impact on the landscape of contemporary American poetry, and a book-length critical treatment of Asian American poetry is long overdue. In this groundbreaking book, Xiaojing Zhou demonstrates how many Asian American poets transform the conventio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zhou, Xiaojing, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2006.
Temas:
American poetry > Asian American authors > History and criticism.
Difference (Psychology) in literature.
Asian Americans > Intellectual life.
Asian Americans in literature.
Ethics in literature.
Poésie américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine asiatique > Histoire et critique.
Américains d'origine asiatique > Vie intellectuelle.
Américains d'origine asiatique dans la littérature.
Morale dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > Asian American.
American poetry > Asian American authors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Poetry by Asian American writers has had a significant impact on the landscape of contemporary American poetry, and a book-length critical treatment of Asian American poetry is long overdue. In this groundbreaking book, Xiaojing Zhou demonstrates how many Asian American poets transform the conventional "I" of lyric poetry - based on the traditional Western concept of the self and the Cartesian "I"--To enact a more ethical relationship between the "I" and its others. Drawing on Emmanuel Levinas's idea of the ethics of alterity - which argues
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 312 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-301) and index.
ISBN:9781587296796
1587296799

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