Research Catalog

Title

Literature and race in the democracy of goods : reading contemporary Black and Asian North American poetry / Christopher Chen.

Author

Chen, Christopher

Publication

• London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Description

viii, 219 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book conducts a comparative study of three literary traditions - post-1960 Asian American, Asian Canadian and Black experimental poetry - which are usually examined separately. In so doing, it intervenes in conventional understandings of postwar North American racial formation and argues that through poetry we can examine the intersection between race and capitalism. Arguing that contemporary Black, Asian American and Asian Canadian poets such as Myung Mi Kim, Nathaniel Macket, Larissa Lai and Erica Hunt challenge established definitions of race, this book develops an account of experimental poetry's understanding of race as a range of relational configurations of subjects within racial groups and across racial divisions. In sum, this book redefines some of the basic terms of analysis of contemporary US poetry and poetics, critical race/ethnic studies, racial capitalism and contemporary theories of comparative racialization."--

Series Statement

Bloomsbury studies in critical poetics

Uniform Title

Bloomsbury studies in critical poetics.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• American poetry > Asian American authors > History and criticism
• Canadian poetry > Asian authors > History and criticism
• Poetry > Black authors > History and criticism
• American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
• Canadian poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
• American poetry
• American poetry > Asian American authors
• Canadian poetry
• Canadian poetry > Asian authors
• Poetry > Black authors
• Poetry

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: The Poetics of (Mis)Recognition PART I: RACE IN THE MIRROR OF COMMODITY FORM -- Chapter 1: 'Piece Logic': Race in the Mirror of Commodity Form -- Chapter 2: 'In the Hollow Parts of Anything that Moves': Asiatic Racial Form and the Poetics of Containment -- Chapter 3: 'Number, Form, Proportion, Situation': The Measure of Racial Comparison in Myung Mi Kim's Dura PART II: RACE AS SERIALITY -- Chapter 4: 'Where From, Where to are Faces of Here': Ed Roberson and the Seriality of Race -- Chapter 5: 'An Axiomatic Chorus': Improvising Collectivity in Nathaniel Mackey's From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate

Call Number

ReCAP 22-16662

ISBN

• 9781350164000
• 1350164003

OCLC

1308649279

Author

Chen, Christopher, author.

Title

Literature and race in the democracy of goods : reading contemporary Black and Asian North American poetry / Christopher Chen.

Publisher

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Bloomsbury studies in critical poetics

Bloomsbury studies in critical poetics.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Research Call Number

ReCAP 22-16662