Racial things, racial forms : objecthood in avant-garde Asian American poetry / Joseph Jonghyun Jeon.

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