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The ethics & poetics of alterity in Asian American poetry / Xiaojing Zhou

Author
Zhou, Xiaojing, 1952-
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Ethics and poetics of alterity in Asian American poetry
Published
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2006.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 312 pages)
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Your otherness is perfect as my death / Li-Young Lee -- She walks in exile vowing no return / Marilyn Chin -- Where am I, the missing third? / David Mura -- The passion of leaving home / Kimiko Hahn -- Each of us harboring what the other lacked / Timothy Liu -- The I of changes, the destroying I, the its of the I / John Yau -- Speak and it is sound in time / Myung Mi Kim.
Summary
Poetry by Asian American writers has had a significant impact on the landscape of contemporary American poetry, and a book-length critical treatment of Asian American poetry is long overdue. In this groundbreaking book, Xiaojing Zhou demonstrates how many Asian American poets transform the conventional "I" of lyric poetry - based on the traditional Western concept of the self and the Cartesian "I"--To enact a more ethical relationship between the "I" and its others. Drawing on Emmanuel Levinas's idea of the ethics of alterity - which argues
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ISBN
9781587296796 (electronic bk.)
1587296799 (electronic bk.)
9780877459828
0877459827
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-301) and index.
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