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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 Timothy Yu. This Edition Also Issued In Print: 2021. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.
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THE THESIS
This work investigates how Asian diasporic poets in the United States, Canada, and Australia navigate national identity through experimental and transnational aesthetic practices. Timothy Yu, a scholar of Asian American literature and poetics, utilizes a comparative framework to analyze how writers resist traditional multicultural narratives. He argues that these poets employ specific formal strategies to challenge the limitations of national belonging and to articulate a broader, interconnected diasporic consciousness.
THE SCOPE MAP
What You Will Find
- Comparative analysis of Asian American, Asian Canadian, and Asian Australian literary traditions
- Examination of experimental poetic forms and their political implications
- Case studies of specific authors including Fred Wah, Myung Mi Kim, and Cathy Park Hong
- Theoretical exploration of the relationship between the Third World and diasporic identity
Scope Limits
- The text focuses primarily on poetry rather than prose or drama
- It does not provide an exhaustive survey of all Asian diasporic writers in these regions
THE AUTHORITY PERSPECTIVE
Scholars in the field of Asian American and transnational literary studies recognize this text as a significant contribution to the study of diasporic poetics. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose and the author's precise application of formalist analysis to complex cultural questions.
Page Count:
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Publication Date:
2021-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
ISBN-10:
0192637800
ISBN-13:
9780192637802
Poetry
Literary Criticism
American poetry
Authors American
Australian poetry
Asian diaspora
Asian Studies
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