Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry
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Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
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Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry

About this book

An exploration of the burgeoning field of Anglophone Asian diaspora poetry, this book draws on the thematic concerns of Hong Kong, Asian-American and British Asian poets from the wider Chinese or East Asian diasporic culture to offer a transnational understanding of the complex notions of home, displacement and race in a globalised world. Located within current discourse surrounding Asian poetry, postcolonial and migrant writing, and bridging the fields of literary and cultural criticism with author interviews, this book provides close readings on established and emerging Chinese diasporic poets' work by incorporating the writers' own reflections on their craft through interviews with some of those featured. In doing so, Jennifer Wong explores the usefulness and limitations of existing labels and categories in reading the works of selected poets from specific racial, socio-cultural, linguistic environments and gender backgrounds, including Bei Dao, Li-Young Lee, Marilyn Chin, Hannah Lowe and Sarah Howe, Nina Mingya Powles and Mary Jean Chan. Incorporating scholarship from both the East and the West, Wong demonstrates how these poets' experimentation with poetic language and forms serve to challenge the changing notions of homeland, family, history and identity, offering new evaluations of contemporary diasporic voices.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of illustrations
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction: Understanding concepts of home, identity and diaspora
  9. 1 Bei Dao: A Sinophone diasporic poet and the poetic language of exile
  10. 2 Li-Young Lee: Exile, nostalgia and Oriental spirituality
  11. 3 Marilyn Chin’s feminist poetics of protest
  12. 4 Hannah Lowe: Hybridity, multicultural heritage and class
  13. 5 Sarah Howe: Pilgrimage, Chinoiserie and translated identities
  14. 6 Race, sexuality and family in the poetry of Mary Jean Chan
  15. 7 Anglophone-Chinese diaspora poetry in the UK: A new generation
  16. 8 Anglophone poetry in Hong Kong: Cosmopolitanism and a split notion of home
  17. Epilogue
  18. Appendix: Author interviews
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index
  21. Imprint