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Foreign Accents

Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity

Steven Yao author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:18th Nov '10

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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 and contested counterpoetic formation.

Deeply thoughtful, critically sharp, Foreign Accents creates a provocative trajectory for understanding Chinese American poetry and poetics. It ranges from insightful close readings of the poetry to stimulating discussions of how these readings can be read with and against theoretical discourses that have shaped the study of Asian American literature. * David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University *

ISBN: 9780199730339

Dimensions: 163mm x 236mm x 25mm

Weight: 615g

336 pages