Literature and Race in the Democracy of Goods

Reading Contemporary Black and Asian North American Poetry

AvChristopher Chen,Daniel Katz

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Del i serien Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics

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Beskrivning

Examining three literary traditions – post-1960 Asian American, Asian Canadian and Black experimental poetry – this book reframes contemporary scholarly accounts of post-war North American comparative racial group formation, demonstrating how such poetry investigates contemporary Black-Asian relations and maps the complex co-constitution of race and capitalism at different spatial scales.Offering extended close readings of contemporary Black, Asian American and Asian Canadian experimental poets such as Myung Mi Kim, Erica Hunt, Larissa Lai and Ed Roberson, this book argues that these writers redefine race as a changing and politically contested form of constraint and possibility powerfully shaped by economic history and capitalist globalization. This study retheorizes some basic terms of analysis of contemporary US poetry and poetics, critical race and ethnic studies, racial capitalism and contemporary theories of comparative and relational racialization.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-10-19
Mått:152 x 232 x 14 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350278806

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Christopher Chen is Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz, USA.

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“In this terrific new study, Chris Chen offers richly historicized and theoretically sophisticated readings of some very challenging but important texts by a group of so-called "experimental" writers in North America who have yet to receive widespread attention. Timely and much needed, Race and Literature in the Democracy of Goods brilliantly coordinates and synthesizes insights from across several academic fields. It should be essential reading for anyone interested minority American poetics, Asian and Black racialization, and poetic and racial form."

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: The Poetics of (Mis)RecognitionPART I: RACE IN THE MIRROR OF COMMODITY FORMChapter 1: 'Piece Logic': Race in the Mirror of Commodity FormChapter 2: 'In the Hollow Parts of Anything that Moves': Asiatic Racial Form and the Poetics of ContainmentChapter 3: 'Number, Form, Proportion, Situation': The Measure of Racial Comparison in Myung Mi Kim's DuraPART II: RACE AS SERIALITYChapter 4: 'Where From, Where to are Faces of Here': Ed Roberson and the Seriality of RaceChapter 5: 'An Axiomatic Chorus': Improvising Collectivity in Nathaniel Mackey's From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate