商品簡介
A study of contemporary American poetry, Race and the Avant-Garde changes the way we think about race and literature. It examines two of the most exciting developments in recent American writing: the rise of Asian American poetry and the advent of the experimental poetry known as Language writing.
Offering what he calls a sociology of the contemporary poetic avant-garde, author Timothy Yu juxtaposes the works of experimental and Asian American poets - works that he argues are concerned primarily with issues of social identity centered around discourses of race. Yu delves into the historical context of 1960s social upheaval to trace how Language and Asian American writing emerged as parallel poetics of the avant-garde, each with its own distinctive form, style, and political meaning.
This book is indispensable reading for those interested in race, Asian American studies, contemporary poetry, and the avant-garde.
作者簡介
Timothy Yu is an assistant professor of English at the University of Toronto.
