Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry

AvJennifer Wong

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-10-31
Mått:152 x 232 x 14 mm
Vikt:380 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350250376

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Poesi inom Skönlitteratur
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Mer om författaren

Jennifer Wong was born and grew up in Hong Kong, and is now based in the UK. She is Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, UK, and a visiting humanities fellow at Oxford University’s TORCH in 2022. She has three poetry collections published including Letters Home (2020), which was named the Wild Card Choice by Poetry Book Society.

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Jennifer Wong’s innovative new study of Anglophone Asian diasporic poetry explores how notions of home, race, identity, and belonging are imaginatively made and re-made in the work of poets whose lives and verse traverse oceans and languages. Fusing literary commentary with in-depth interviews with practicing poets, this lucid and elegant book straddles criticism and creativity in illuminating ways, showing how the voices of living poets rightly belong in scholarly treatments of their work. This book a must-read for any scholar or student keen to understand the relationship between poetic form and experiences of migration, exile, and multiculturalism.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface by Shirley LimIntroduction: Understanding concepts of home, identity and diaspora Chapter 1 - Bei Dao: A Sinophone diasporic poet and the poetic language of exileChapter 2 - Li-Young Lee: Exile, nostalgia and Oriental spiritualityChapter 3 - Marilyn Chin’s feminist poetics of protestChapter 4 - Hannah Lowe: Hybridity, multicultural heritage and classChapter 5 - Sarah Howe: Pilgrimage, Chinoiserie and translated identitiesChapter 6 - Race, sexuality and family in the poetry of Mary Jean ChanChapter 7 - Anglophone Chinese diaspora poetry in the UK: A new generationChapter 8 - Anglophone poetry in Hong Kong: Cosmopolitanism and a splitnotion of home Epilogue Appendix 1 - Author InterviewsAppendix 2 - Biographies of Poets DiscussedBibliographyIndex