Foreign accents : Chinese American verse from exclusion to postethnicity /
Yao, Steven G.,1965-
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
To be (or not to be) the poet : the cultural politics of verse in Asian American literature -- Toward a prehistory of Asian American verse : Pound, Cathay, and the poetics of Chineseness -- Chinese/American verse in transnational perspective : racial protest and the poems of Angel Island -- From the language of race to the poetics of ethnicity : the rise of Asian American verse -- A voice from China : Ha Jin and the cultural politics of antisocialist realism -- The precision of persimmons : Li-Young Lee, ethnic identity and the limits of lyric testimony -- Are you hate speech or are you a lullaby? : Marilyn Chin and the politics of form in Chinese/American verse -- The owner of one pock-marked tongue : John Yau and the logic of ethnic abstraction -- Chinese/American verse in the age of postethnicity?
American poetry
American poetry
Chinese Americans in literature.