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Foreign accents

Yao, Steven G., 1965-

Foreign accents Chinese American verse from exclusion to postethnicity / [electronic resource] ; Steven G. Yao. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (vii, 326 p.) : ill. - Global Asias . - Global Asias. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book undertakes linguistically informed analyses to examine the various transpacific signifying strategies by which different poets of Chinese descent in the United States have sought to employ or represent elements of a particular cultural tradition in their articulations of an ethnic subjectivity, including writings entirely in Chinese.



9780199866540 (ebook) : No price


American poetry--Chinese authors--History and criticism.
American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
Chinese Americans in literature.

PS153.C45

811.5098951073