Foreign Accents: Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity (Global Asias)

by Steven Yao

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Foreign Accents sets forth a historical poetics of verse by writers of Chinese descent in the U.S. from the early twentieth century to the present. With readings of works by Ezra Pound, Li-young Lee, Marilyn Chin, Ha Jin, and John Yau, this study charts the dimensions of Asian American verse as an evolving and contested counterpoetic formation.
  • ISBN10 0199730334
  • ISBN13 9780199730339
  • Publish Date 18 November 2010
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 336
  • Language English