Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Yu, Timothy (Professor of literature)

Publication

• Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Description

173 pages; 24 cm

Summary

This book advances a new concept of the "Asian diaspora" that creates links between Asian American, Asian Canadian, and Asian Australian identities. Drawing from comparable studies of the black diaspora, it traces the histories of colonialism, immigration, and exclusion shared by these three populations. The work of Asian poets in each of these three countries offers a rich terrain for understanding how Asian identities emerge at the intersection of national and transnational flows, with the poets' thematic and formal choices reflecting the varied pressures of social and cultural histories, as well as the influence of Asian writers in other national locations. Diasporic Poetics argues that racialized and nationally bounded "Asian" identities often emerge from transnational political solidarities, from "Third World" struggles against colonialism to the global influence of the American civil rights movement. Indeed, this volume shows that Asian writers disclaim national belonging as often as they claim it, placing Asian diasporic writers at a critical distance from the national spaces within which they write. As the first full-length study to compare Asian American, Asian Canadian, and Asian Australian writers, the book offers the historical and0cultural contexts necessary to understand the distinctive development of Asian writing in each country, while also offering close analysis of the work of writers such as Janice Mirikitani, Fred Wah, Ouyang Yu, Myung Mi Kim, and Cathy Park Hong.

Series Statement

Global Asias

Uniform Title

Global Asias

Subject

• American poetry > Asian American authors
• American poetry > History and criticism
• Asian diaspora
• Australian poetry > Asian authors
• Canadian poetry > Asian authors
• Canadian poetry > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-170) and index.

ISBN

• 0198867654
• 9780198867654

OCLC

• 1237632951
• on1237632951

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library