LEADER 03051nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910778233203321 005 20230828225757.0 010 $a1-58729-679-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000483601 035 $a(EBL)843170 035 $a(OCoLC)219758183 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000149863 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11150987 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000149863 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10238383 035 $a(PQKB)11232098 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC843170 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2978 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL843170 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10354686 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000483601 100 $a20050817d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe ethics & poetics of alterity in Asian American poetry$b[electronic resource] /$fXiaojing Zhou 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (327 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87745-982-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [289]-301) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $aPoetry 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 517 1 $aEthics and poetics of alterity in Asian American poetry 606 $aAmerican poetry$xAsian American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDifference (Psychology) in literature 606 $aAsian Americans$xIntellectual life 606 $aAsian Americans in literature 606 $aEthics in literature 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xAsian American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDifference (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aAsian Americans$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aAsian Americans in literature. 615 0$aEthics in literature. 676 $a811.009/353 700 $aZhou$b Xiaojing$f1952-$01534449 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778233203321 996 $aThe ethics & poetics of alterity in Asian American poetry$93796276 997 $aUNINA