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

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"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 the...

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Main Author: Yu, Timothy (Professor of literature) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Global Asias.
Subjects:
American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism.
Canadian literature > Asian authors > History and criticism.
Australian literature > Asian authors > History and criticism.
Asian diaspora.
American poetry > Asian American authors > History and criticism.
Canadian poetry > Asian authors > History and criticism.
Australian poetry > Asian authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Asian American authors.
American poetry > Asian American authors.
Canadian poetry > Asian authors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Theorizing the Asian Diaspora
  • 1: Hiroshima/Vietnam/Tule Lake: Asian America and the Third World in the 1970s
  • 2: Waiting for Asian Canada: Fred Wah's Transnational Aesthetics
  • 3: The Multicultural Cringe: The Perils of Asian Australian Literature
  • 4: Disclaiming America: Decentering the US in the Twenty-First-Century Work of Myung Mi Kim and Cathy Park Hong
  • Conclusion: A Poetics of the Asian Diaspora; or, Subtle Asian Traits.

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