Racial things, racial forms : objecthood in avant-garde Asian American poetry
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Racial things, racial forms : objecthood in avant-garde Asian American poetry
（Contemporary North American poetry series）
University of Iowa Press, c2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index
収録内容
- Black things, white things : objecthood in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's language art
- Speaking in tongues : Myung Mi Kim's poetics of mouth
- The body of the book : positioned phenomenology in Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's art-book collaborations
- Reflections of things : ekphrasis and racial iconology in Cathy Song and John Yau
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内容説明
In Racial Things, Racial Forms, Joseph Jonghyun Jeon focuses on a coterie of under examined contemporary Asian American poets -- Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Myung Mi Kim, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and John Yau--who reject many of the characteristics of traditional minority writing, in particular the language of identity politics, which tends to challenge political marginalisation without contesting more fundamental assumptions about the construction of racial form. In the poets' various treatments of things (that is, objects of art), one witnesses a confluence of heretofore discrete factors: the avant-garde interest in objecthood and the racial question of objectification. By refashioning avant-garde investigations of things into questions about how American discourse visualises race in and on the body, these poets implicitly critique dominant modes of racial visibility, seeking alternatives to the unreflective stances that identity politics often unwittingly reproduces. At the heart of Jeon's project is the assumption that racial form is continually recalibrated to elide ideological ambiguities and ambivalence in contemporary culture. Thus, rather than focusing exclusively on the subject--on interiority and individual experience -- Racial Things, Racial Forms also uses the calculated strangeness of the avant-garde art object as an occasion to emphasise the physical and visual oddness of racial constructs, as a series of ever changing, contemporary phenomena that are in conversation with, but not entirely determined by, their historical legacy. In this critical study, Jeon argues that by invoking the foreignness of an avant-garde art object as a way to understand racial otherness, these writers model the possibility of a post-identity, racial politics that challenges how race is fundamentally visualised. In addition to appealing to those interested in Asian American studies and race in American literature, Racial Things, Racial Forms addresses readers interested in contemporary poetry, art, and visual culture, paying particular attention to the intersections between literary and visual art.
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