Foreign accents
Subtitle: Chinese American verse from exclusion to postethnicity
By: by Steven G. Yao.
Series: Global Asias
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780199730339
Subjects: American poetry -- Chinese American authors -- History and criticism; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Chinese Americans in literature
Description: This book undertakes linguistically informed analyses to examine the various transpacific signifying strategies by which different poets of Chinese descent in the United States have sought to employ or represent elements of a particular cultural tradition in their articulations of an ethnic subjectivity, including writings entirely in Chinese.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.