Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry

Dr Jennifer Wong (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-25037-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Preface by Shirley Lim
Introduction: Understanding concepts of home, identity and diaspora
Chapter 1 - Bei Dao: A Sinophone diasporic poet and the poetic language of exile
Chapter 2 - Li-Young Lee: Exile, nostalgia and Oriental spirituality
Chapter 3 - Marilyn Chin’s feminist poetics of protest
Chapter 4 - Hannah Lowe: Hybridity, multicultural heritage and class
Chapter 5 - Sarah Howe: Pilgrimage, Chinoiserie and translated identities
Chapter 6 - Race, sexuality and family in the poetry of Mary Jean Chan
Chapter 7 - Anglophone Chinese diaspora poetry in the UK: A new generation
Chapter 8 - Anglophone poetry in Hong Kong: Cosmopolitanism and a split
notion of home

Epilogue
Appendix 1 - Author Interviews
Appendix 2 - Biographies of Poets Discussed
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.11.2022
Zusatzinfo	17 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-25037-6 / 1350250376
ISBN-13	978-1-350-25037-6 / 9781350250376
Zustand	Neuware