Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry

ISBN-13: 9781350250338 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 256 str.

Jennifer Wong

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Preface by Shirley Lim Introduction: Understanding concepts of home, identity and diaspora Chapter 1 - Bei Dao: A Sinophone diasporic poet and the poetic language of exile Chapter 2 - Li-Young Lee: Exile, nostalgia and Oriental spirituality Chapter 3 - Marilyn Chin’s feminist poetics of protest Chapter 4 - Hannah Lowe: Hybridity, multicultural heritage and class Chapter 5 - Sarah Howe: Pilgrimage, Chinoiserie and translated identities Chapter 6 - Race, sexuality and family in the poetry of Mary Jean Chan Chapter 7 - Anglophone Chinese diaspora poetry in the UK: A new generation Chapter 8 - Anglophone poetry in Hong Kong: Cosmopolitanism and a split notion of home Epilogue Appendix 1 - Author Interviews Appendix 2 - Biographies of Poets Discussed Bibliography Index