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Chord (Paperback)
Rick Barot
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Timely issues: Poems address vivid troubles of contemporary
America, including political and societal distresses related to
immigration and citizenship
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry Finalist for the
Pacific Northwest Book Award A New York Public Library Best Book of
2020 For almost twenty years, Rick Barot has been writing some of
the most stunningly crafted lyric poems in America, paying careful,
Rilkean attention to the layered world that surrounds us. In The
Galleons, he widens his scope, contextualizing the immigrant
journey of his Filipino-American family in the larger history and
aftermath of colonialism. These poems are engaged in the work of
recovery, making visible what is often intentionally erased: the
movement of domestic workers on a weekday morning in Brooklyn; a
veteran of the war in Afghanistan, fondly sharing photos of his
dog; the departure and destination points of dozens of galleons
between 1564 and 1815, these ships evoking both the vast movements
of history and the individual journeys of those borne along by
their tides. "Her story is a part of something larger, it is a part
/ of history," Barot writes of his grandmother. "No, her story is
an illumination // of history, a matchstick lit in the black seam
of time." With nods toward Barot's poetic predecessors-from Frank
O'Hara to John Donne-The Galleons represents an exciting extension
and expansion of this virtuosic poet's work, marrying "reckless"
ambition and crafted "composure," in which we repeatedly find the
speaker standing and breathing before the world, "incredible and
true."
This book is the first in English to consider women's movements and
feminist discourses in twentieth-century Taiwan. Doris T. Chang
examines the way in which Taiwanese women in the twentieth century
selectively appropriated Western feminist theories to meet their
needs in a modernizing Confucian culture. She illustrates the rise
and fall of women's movements against the historical backdrop of
the island's contested national identities, first vis-a-vis
imperial Japan (1895-1945) and later with postwar China
(1945-2000). In particular, during periods of soft authoritarianism
in the Japanese colonial era and late twentieth century, autonomous
women's movements emerged and operated within the political
perimeters set by the authoritarian regimes. Women strove to
replace the "Good Wife, Wise Mother" ideal with an individualist
feminism that meshed social, political, and economic gender equity
with the prevailing Confucian family ideology. However, during
periods of hard authoritarianism from the 1930s to the 1960s, the
autonomous movements collapsed. The particular brand of Taiwanese
feminism developed from numerous outside influences, including
interactions among an East Asian sociopolitical milieu, various
strands of Western feminism, and Marxist-Leninist women's
liberation programs in Soviet Russia. Chinese communism appears not
to have played a significant role, due to the Chinese Nationalists'
restriction of communication with the mainland during their rule on
post-World War II Taiwan. Notably, this study compares the
perspectives of Madame Chiang Kai-shek, whose husband led as the
president of the Republic of China on Taiwan from 1949 to 1975, and
Hsiu-lien Annette Lu, Taiwan's vice president from 2000 to 2008.
Delving into period sources such as the highly influential feminist
monthly magazine Awakening as well as interviews with feminist
leaders, Chang provides a comprehensive historical and
cross-cultural analysis of the struggle for gender equality in
Taiwan.
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