The ethics & poetics of alterity in Asian American poetry / / Xiaojing Zhou

• Autore: Zhou Xiaojing <1952->
• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (327 p.)
• Disciplina: 811.009/353
• Soggetto topico: American poetry - Asian American authors - History and criticism; Difference (Psychology) in literature; Asian Americans - Intellectual life; Asian Americans in literature; Ethics in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-301) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Altri titoli varianti: Ethics and poetics of alterity in Asian American poetry
• Titolo autorizzato: The ethics & poetics of alterity in Asian American poetry
• ISBN: 9781587296796; 1587296799
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910967057103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II