Race and the Avant-Garde
Subtitle: Experimental and Asian American Poetry Since 1965
By: Timothy Yu.
Series: Asian America
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780804759977
Subjects: American poetry -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism; Experimental poetry, American -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Race in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : toward a sociology of the contemporary avant-garde; title: Auto poesy : Allen Ginsberg and the politics of poetry; title: Ron Silliman and the ethnicization of the avant-garde; title: Inventing a culture : Asian American poetry in the 1970s; title: Audience distant relative : reading Theresa Hak Kyung Cha; title: Mr. Moto's monologue : John Yau and experimental Asian American writing.