03136nam 2200673 a 450 991096705710332120200520144314.097815872967961587296799(CKB)1000000000483601(EBL)843170(OCoLC)219758183(SSID)ssj0000149863(PQKBManifestationID)11150987(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000149863(PQKBWorkID)10238383(PQKB)11232098(MiAaPQ)EBC843170(MdBmJHUP)muse2978(Au-PeEL)EBL843170(CaPaEBR)ebr10354686(Perlego)2937393(EXLCZ)99100000000048360120050817d2006 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe ethics & poetics of alterity in Asian American poetry /Xiaojing Zhou1st ed.Iowa City University of Iowa Press20061 online resource (327 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780877459828 0877459827 Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-301) and index.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; IndexPoetry 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 isEthics and poetics of alterity in Asian American poetryAmerican poetryAsian American authorsHistory and criticismDifference (Psychology) in literatureAsian AmericansIntellectual lifeAsian Americans in literatureEthics in literatureAmerican poetryAsian American authorsHistory and criticism.Difference (Psychology) in literature.Asian AmericansIntellectual life.Asian Americans in literature.Ethics in literature.811.009/353Zhou Xiaojing1952-1801004MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910967057103321The ethics & poetics of alterity in Asian American poetry4351908UNINA