Asian Diaspora Poetry in North America

Informationen zum Autor Benzi Zhang Klappentext This volume provides a new way of reading that helps us discern some previously unnoticed features of Asian diaspora poetry and highlights how poetry plays a significant role in mediating and defining cross-cultural and transnational positions. Zusammenfassung This volume provides a new way of reading that helps us discern some previously unnoticed features of Asian diaspora poetry and highlights how poetry plays a significant role in mediating and defining cross-cultural and transnational positions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Permissions Chapter One: Introduction: Departure for a Detour Chapter Two: The Poetics of Cultural Transrelation: A Diversion of Identity Chapter Three: The Politics of Re-homing: Negotiation of Cultural Dwellings Chapter Four: The Problematics of Translocal Place: Cultural Passage beyond the Border Politics Chapter Five: Alter/native Stories of Memory and Amnesia: A Mnemonic Inquiry Chapter Six: Against the Grain of Cultural Exoticism: The Other Question Chapter Seven: Styling Diasporic Carnival: Performance of Difference Chapter Eight: Conclusion: Journey without Maps Bibliography Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Benzi Zhang, Benzi (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Zhang, Zhang Benzi
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 13.11.2007
• EAN: 9780415957175
• ISBN: 978-0-415-95717-5
• Seiten: 194
• Abmessung: 159 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Serien: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory; Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / General, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary theory, Literary studies: postcolonial literature