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Author Zhou, Xiaojing, 1952-

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

Publication Info. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 312 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-301) and index.
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.
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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 & ldquo;I & rdquo; of lyric poetry & mdash;based on the traditional Western concept of the self and the Cartesian & ldquo;I & rdquo; & mdash;to enact a more ethical relationship between the & ldquo;I & rdquo; and its others. Drawing on Emmanuel Levinas & rsquo;s idea of the ethics of alterity & mdash;which argues.
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Subject American poetry -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism.
American poetry -- Asian American authors.
Difference (Psychology) in literature.
Difference (Psychology) in literature.
Asian Americans -- Intellectual life.
Asian Americans -- Intellectual life.
Asian Americans.
Asian Americans in literature.
Asian Americans in literature.
Ethics in literature.
Ethics in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Title Ethics and poetics of alterity in Asian American poetry
Other Form: Print version: Zhou, Xiaojing, 1952- Ethics & poetics of alterity in Asian American poetry. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2006 0877459827 9780877459828 (DLC) 2005053852 (OCoLC)61362875
ISBN 9781587296796 (electronic book)
1587296799 (electronic book)
9780877459828 (alkaline paper)
0877459827 (alkaline paper)
0877459827 (alkaline paper)