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Foreign Accents: Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity

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Foreign Accents: Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity

Author(s): Yao (Author)

  • Publisher: ACADEMIC
  • Publication Date: 27 Oct. 2010
  • Edition: Illustrated
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 336 pages
  • ISBN-10: 0199730334
  • ISBN-13: 9780199730339

Book Description

Foreign Accents examines the various transpacific signifying strategies by which poets of Chinese descent in the U.S. have sought to represent cultural tradition in their articulations of an ethnic subjectivity, in Chinese as well as in English. In assessing both the dynamics and the politics of poetic expression by writers engaging with a specific cultural heritage, the study develops a general theory of ethnic literary production that clarifies the significance of "Asian American" literature in relation to both other forms of U.S. "minority discourse," as well as canonical "American" literature more generally. At the same time, it maps an expanded textual arena and a new methodology for Asian American literary studies that can be further explored by scholars of other traditions.

Yao discusses a range of works, including Ezra Pound's Cathay and the Angel Island poems. He examines the careers of four contemporary Chinese/American poets: Ha Jin, Li-young Lee, Marilyn Chin, and John Yau, each of whom bears a distinctive relationship to the linguistic and cultural tradition he or she seeks to represent. Specifically, Yao investigates the range of rhetorical and formal strategies by which these writers have sought to incorporate Chinese culture and, especially, language in their works. Combining such analysis with extensive social contextualization, Foreign Accents delineates an historical poetics of Chinese American verse from the early twentieth century to the present.

Editorial Reviews

Review


"Deeply thoughtful, critically sharp, Foreign Accents creates a provocative trajectory for understanding Chinese American poetry and poetics. It ranges from insightful close readings of the poetry to stimulating discussions of how these readings can be read with and against theoretical discourses that have shaped the study of Asian American literature." --David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University


"This is a groundbreaking book that examines writers who have not yet received much critical attention and shifts the critical paradigms that we might use to read them. Yao is an excellent scholar with clear gifts for stimulating close readings and clear historical synthesis." --Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, University of San Diego


"The sustained analyses that unfold in Foreign Accents present a critical framework for teasing out the precise operations of ethnic expression. Yao balances his close attention to poetic form with a clear elaboration of the political stakes of Asian American poetics, and his study ably demonstrates the critical possibilities of a comparative, multilingual approach to minority American writing." --Comparative Literature Studies


"Yao makes legible to Anglophone readers not only the literary accomplishment of the Angel Island poets but also their specific transnational politics. ... Yao elegantly and convincingly make[s] the case that formalist modes of analysis honor Asian American texts as works of literary art and enable mores nuanced understandings of their politics." --American Literature

Review

"Deeply thoughtful, critically sharp, Foreign Accents creates a provocative trajectory for understanding Chinese American poetry and poetics. It ranges from insightful close readings of the poetry to stimulating discussions of how these readings can be read with and against theoretical discourses that have shaped the study of Asian American literature." --David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University

"This is a groundbreaking book that examines writers who have not yet received much critical attention and shifts the critical paradigms that we might use to read them. Yao is an excellent scholar with clear gifts for stimulating close readings and clear historical synthesis." --Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, University of San Diego

"The sustained analyses that unfold in Foreign Accents present a critical framework for teasing out the precise operations of ethnic expression. Yao balances his close attention to poetic form with a clear elaboration of the political stakes of Asian American poetics, and his study ably demonstrates the critical possibilities of a comparative, multilingual approach to minority American writing." --Comparative Literature Studies

"Yao makes legible to Anglophone readers not only the literary accomplishment of the Angel Island poets but also their specific transnational politics. ... Yao elegantly and convincingly make[s] the case that formalist modes of analysis honor Asian American texts as works of literary art and enable mores nuanced understandings of their politics." --American Literature

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