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Asian writing in the United States, Canada, and Australia
"This book advances a new concept of the "Asian diaspora" that creates links between Asian American, Asian Canadian, and Asian Australian identities. Drawing from comparable studies of the black diaspora, it traces the histories of colonialism, immigration, and exclusion shared by these three populations. The work of Asian poets in each of these three countries offers a rich terrain for understanding how Asian identities emerge at the intersection of national and transnational flows, with the poets' thematic and formal choices reflecting the varied pressures of social and cultural histories, as well as the influence of Asian writers in other national locations. Diasporic Poetics argues that racialized and nationally bounded "Asian" identities often emerge from transnational political solidarities, from Third World struggles against colonialism to the global influence of the American civil rights movement. Indeed, I show that Asian writers disclaim national belonging as often as they claim it, placing Asian diasporic writers at a critical distance from the national spaces within which they write. As the first full-length study to compare Asian American, Asian Canadian, and Asian Australian writers, the book offers the historical and cultural contexts necessary to understand the distinctive development of Asian writing in each country, while also offering close analysis of the work of writers such as Janice Mirikitani, Fred Wah, Ouyang Yu, Myung Mi Kim, and Cathy Park Hong"--Publisher's description
Introduction: Theorizing the Asian Diaspora -- 1: Hiroshima/Vietnam/Tule Lake: Asian America and the Third World in the 1970s -- 2: Waiting for Asian Canada: Fred Wah's Transnational Aesthetics -- 3: The Multicultural Cringe: The Perils of Asian Australian Literature -- 4: Disclaiming America: Decentering the US in the Twenty-First-Century Work of Myung Mi Kim and Cathy Park Hong -- Conclusion: A Poetics of the Asian Diaspora; or, Subtle Asian Traits
This edition also issued in print: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.