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Foreign Accents - Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity (Hardcover)
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Foreign Accents - Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity (Hardcover)
Series: Global Asias
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Foreign Accents examines the various transpacific signifying
strategies by which poets of Chinese descent in the U.S. have
sought to represent cultural tradition in their articulations of an
ethnic subjectivity, in Chinese as well as in English. In assessing
both the dynamics and the politics of poetic expression by writers
engaging with a specific cultural heritage, the study develops a
general theory of ethnic literary production that clarifies the
significance of "Asian American" literature in relation to both
other forms of U.S. "minority discourse," as well as canonical
"American" literature more generally. At the same time, it maps an
expanded textual arena and a new methodology for Asian American
literary studies that can be further explored by scholars of other
traditions.
Yao discusses a range of works, including Ezra Pound's Cathay and
the Angel Island poems. He examines the careers of four
contemporary Chinese/American poets: Ha Jin, Li-young Lee, Marilyn
Chin, and John Yau, each of whom bears a distinctive relationship
to the linguistic and cultural tradition he or she seeks to
represent. Specifically, Yao investigates the range of rhetorical
and formal strategies by which these writers have sought to
incorporate Chinese culture and, especially, language in their
works. Combining such analysis with extensive social
contextualization, Foreign Accents delineates an historical poetics
of Chinese American verse from the early twentieth century to the
present.
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