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Autore |
Zhou Xiaojing <1952-> |
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Titolo |
The ethics & poetics of alterity in Asian American poetry / / Xiaojing Zhou |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2006 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (327 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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American poetry - Asian American authors - History and criticism |
Difference (Psychology) in literature |
Asian Americans - Intellectual life |
Asian Americans in literature |
Ethics in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-301) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Your Otherness Is Perfect as My Death; 2. She Walks into Exile Vowing No Return; 3. Where Am I, the Missing Third?; 4. The Passion of Leaving Home; 5. Each of Us Harboring What the Other Lacked; 6. The I of Changes, the Destroying I, the Its of the I; 7. Speak and It Is Sound in Time; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 "I" of lyric poetry-based on the traditional Western concept of the self and the Cartesian "I"-to enact a more ethical relationship between the "I" and its others.Drawing on Emmanuel Levinas's idea of the ethics of alterity-which argues that an ethical relation to the other is |
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