Foreign Accents
Foreign Accents: Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity by Steven Yao
English | 18 Nov. 2010 | ISBN: 0199730334 | 336 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | 18 Nov. 2010 | ISBN: 0199730334 | 336 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
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.