Foreign accents: chinese american verse from exclusion to postethnicity

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 andcontested counterpoetic formation. INDICE: 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

• ISBN: 978-0-19-973033-9
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 352
• Fecha Publicación: 18/11/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés