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Author Wang, Dorothy J

Title Thinking its presence : form, race, and subjectivity in contemporary Asian American poetry / Dorothy J. Wang
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (416 pages)
Series Asian America
Asian America.
Contents Introduction : aesthetics contra "identity" in contemporary poetry studies -- Metaphor, desire and assimilation in the poetry of Li-Young Lee -- Reading too much into : Marilyn Chin, translation, and Asian American poetry in the "post-race" era -- Irony's barbarian voices in the poetry of Marilyn Chin -- Undercover Asian : John Yau, parody, and the politics of ethnic identification and self-identification -- Genghis Chan : parodying private eye -- Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge's poetics of contingency and relationality -- Subjunctive subjects : Pamela Lu's Pamela : a novel and the poetics and politics of diaspora -- Epilogue : American poetry and poetry criticism in the twenty-first century?
Summary When will American poetry and poetics stop viewing poetry by racialized persons as a secondary subject within the field? Dorothy J. Wang makes an impassioned case that now is the time. Thinking Its Presence calls for a radical rethinking of how American poetry is being read today, offering its own reading as a roadmap. While focusing on the work of five contemporary Asian American poets- Li-Young Lee, Marilyn Chin, John Yau, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and Pamela Lu- the book contends that aesthetic forms are inseparable from social, political, and historical contexts in the writing and reception of all poetry. Wang questions the tendency of critics and academics alike to occlude the role of race in their discussions of the American poetic tradition and casts a harsh light on the double standard they apply in reading poems by poets who are racial minorities. This is the first sustained study of the formal properties in Asian American poetry across a range of aesthetic styles, from traditional lyric to avant-garde. Wang argues with conviction that critics should read minority poetry with the same attention to language and form that they bring to their analyses of writing by white poets. --Amazon.com
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 6, 2013)
Subject American poetry -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism
American poetry -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
Literary form.
Poetics.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- Asian American.
American poetry -- Asian American authors
Literary form
Poetics
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804789097
0804789096
0804783659
9780804783651