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Author:

Yao, Steven G., 1965-

Title:

Foreign accents : Chinese American verse from exclusion to postethnicity / Steven G. Yao.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

ix, 326 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American poetry--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
Chinese Americans in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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 -- From the language of race to the poetics of ethnicity : the rise of Asian American verse -- A voice from China : Ha Jin and the cultural politics of antisocialist realism -- The precision of persimmons : Li-Young Lee, ethnic identity and the limits of lyric testimony -- Are you hate speech or are you a lullaby? : Marilyn Chin and the politics of form in Chinese/American verse -- The owner of one pock-marked tongue : John Yau and the logic of ethnic abstraction -- Chinese/American verse in the age of postethnicity?

Series:

Global Asias

ISBN:

0199730334 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780199730339 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)495616847

LCCN:

2009052980

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)