Foreign Accents sets forth a historical poetics of verse by writers of Chinese descent in the U.S. from the early twentieth century to the present. With readings of works by Ezra Pound, Li-young Lee, Marilyn Chin, Ha Jin, and John Yau, this study charts the dimensions of Asian American verse as an evolving and contested counterpoetic formation.
| ISBN: | 9780199730339 |
| Publication date: | 18th November 2010 |
| Author: | Steven Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Hamilton College Yao |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 336 pages |
| Series: | Global Asias |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: poetry and poets Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |