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Author:

Chen, Christopher, author.

Title:

Literature and race in the democracy of goods : reading contemporary Black and Asian North American poetry / Christopher Chen.

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Academic,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

viii, 219 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

1900-1999
American poetry--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Canadian poetry--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Poetry--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
Canadian poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
American poetry.
American poetry--Asian American authors.
Canadian poetry.
Canadian poetry--Asian authors.
Poetry--Black authors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: The Poetics of (Mis)Recognition PART I: RACE IN THE MIRROR OF COMMODITY FORM -- Chapter 1: 'Piece Logic': Race in the Mirror of Commodity Form -- Chapter 2: 'In the Hollow Parts of Anything that Moves': Asiatic Racial Form and the Poetics of Containment -- Chapter 3: 'Number, Form, Proportion, Situation': The Measure of Racial Comparison in Myung Mi Kim's Dura PART II: RACE AS SERIALITY -- Chapter 4: 'Where From, Where to are Faces of Here': Ed Roberson and the Seriality of Race -- Chapter 5: 'An Axiomatic Chorus': Improvising Collectivity in Nathaniel Mackey's From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate

Summary:

"This book conducts a comparative study of three literary traditions - post-1960 Asian American, Asian Canadian and Black experimental poetry - which are usually examined separately. In so doing, it intervenes in conventional understandings of postwar North American racial formation and argues that through poetry we can examine the intersection between race and capitalism. Arguing that contemporary Black, Asian American and Asian Canadian poets such as Myung Mi Kim, Nathaniel Macket, Larissa Lai and Erica Hunt challenge established definitions of race, this book develops an account of experimental poetry's understanding of race as a range of relational configurations of subjects within racial groups and across racial divisions. In sum, this book redefines some of the basic terms of analysis of contemporary US poetry and poetics, critical race/ethnic studies, racial capitalism and contemporary theories of comparative racialization."-- Provided by publisher

Series:

Bloomsbury studies in critical poetics

ISBN:

1350164003
9781350164000

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1308649279

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)