Foreign Accents

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-973033-9
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 672 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yao

Yao, Steven

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgments

- Introduction

- To Be (or Not to Be) the Poet: The Cultural Politics of Verse in Asian American Literature

- 1.: Toward a Pre-History of Asian American Verse: Pound, Cathay, and the Poetics of Chineseness

- 2.: Chinese/American Verse in Transnational Perspective: Racial Protest and the Poems of Angel Island

- Interchapter:

- From the Language of Race to the Poetics of Ethnicity: The Rise of Asian American Verse

- 3.: 'A Voice from China': Ha Jin and the Cultural Politics of Anti-Socialist Realism

- 4.: The Precision of Persimmons: Li-young Lee, Ethic Identity, and the Limits of Lyric Testimony

- 5.: 'Are you hate speech or are you a lullaby?': Marilyn Chin and the Politics of Form in Chinese/American Verse

- 6.: 'the owner of one pock-marked tongue': John Yau and the Logic of Ethnic Abstraction

- Conclusion: Chinese/American Verse in the Age of Post-ethnicity?

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Steven G. Yao is Associate Professor of English at Hamilton College. He is the author of Translation and the Languages of Modernism (Palgrave 2002).