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100 Chinese Silences

There are one hundred kinds of Chinese silence: the silence of unknown grandfathers; the silence of borrowed Buddha and rebranded Confucius; the silence of alluring stereotypes and exotic reticence. These poems make those silences heard. Writing back to an “orientalist” tradition that has defined mo...

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Autore principale: Yu, Timothy
Natura: Online
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Punctum Books 2024
Soggetti:
poetry
Asian American culture
racial stereotypes
orientalism
cultural appropriation
China
American literature
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DC Poetry::DCF Poetry by individual poets
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DC Poetry::DCC Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)
thema EDItEUR::6 Style qualifiers::6N Styles (NO)::6NE Orientalism
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC7 Cross-cultural / Intercultural studies and topics
thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FP East Asia, Far East::1FPC China
Accesso online:ONIX_20241007_9781685712235_3
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Riassunto:There are one hundred kinds of Chinese silence: the silence of unknown grandfathers; the silence of borrowed Buddha and rebranded Confucius; the silence of alluring stereotypes and exotic reticence. These poems make those silences heard. Writing back to an “orientalist” tradition that has defined modern American poetry, these 100 Chinese silences unmask the imagined Asias of American literature, revealing the spectral Asian presence that haunts our most eloquent lyrics and self-satisfied wisdom. Rewriting poets from Ezra Pound and Marianne Moore to Gary Snyder and Billy Collins, this book is a sharply critical and wickedly humorous travesty of the modern canon, excavating the Asian (American) bones buried in our poetic language.

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