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Racial things, racial forms : objecthood in avant-garde Asian American poetry / Joseph Jonghyun Jeon.
Van Pelt Library PS153.A84 J46 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jeon, Joseph Jonghyun, 1971-
- Series:
- Contemporary North American poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--Asian American authors--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- Race in literature.
- Object (Philosophy) in literature.
- Experimental poetry, American--History and criticism.
- Experimental poetry, American.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--United States.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics).
- American poetry--Asian American authors.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xli, 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2012]
- Summary:
- In Racial Things, Racial Forms, Joseph Jonghyun Jeon focuses on a coterie of under-examined contemporary Asian American poets-Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Myung Mi Kim, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and John Yau-who reject many of the characteristics of traditional minority writing. In the poets' various treatments of things (that is, objects of art), one witnesses a confluence of the avant-garde interest in objecthood and the racial question of objectification. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Black things, white things : objecthood in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's language art
- Speaking in tongues : Myung Mi Kim's poetics of mouth
- The body of the book : positioned phenomenology in Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's art-book collaborations
- Reflections of things : ekphrasis and racial iconology in Cathy Song and John Yau.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781609380861
- 160938086X
- OCLC:
- 754105060
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