Diasporic poetics : Asian writing in the United States, Canada, and Australia / Timothy Yu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yu, Yelu, author.

Series:

Global Asias.

Global Asias

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Asian American authors--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Canadian poetry--Asian authors--History and criticism.

Canadian poetry.

Australian poetry--Asian authors.

Australian poetry.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Studies Asian American, Asian Canadian, and Asian Australian writing to establish what 'diasporic poetics' might be held in common.

Contents:

Cover

Diasporic Poetics: Asian Writing in the United States, Canada, and Australia

Copyright

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction: Theorizing the Asian Diaspora

1: Hiroshima/Vietnam/Tule Lake: Asian America and the Third World in the 1970s

2: Waiting for Asian Canada: Fred Wah's Transnational Aesthetics

3: The Multicultural Cringe: The Perils of Asian Australian Literature

4: Disclaiming America: Decentering the US in the Twenty-First-Century Work of Myung Mi Kim and Cathy Park Hong

Conclusion: A Poetics of the Asian Diaspora

or, Subtle Asian Traits

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-263781-9

0-19-190442-2

OCLC:

1261275214