Foreign Accents

Steven G. Yao is Associate Professor of English at Hamilton College. He is the author of Translation and the Languages of Modernism (Palgrave 2002).

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; TO BE (OR NOT TO BE) THE POET: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF VERSE IN ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE; INTERCHAPTER; FROM THE LANGUAGE OF RACE TO THE POETICS OF ETHNICITY: THE RISE OF ASIAN AMERICAN VERSE; CONCLUSION: CHINESE/AMERICAN VERSE IN THE AGE OF POST-ETHNICITY?; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Deeply thoughtful, critically sharp, Foreign Accents creates a provocative trajectory for understanding Chinese American poetry and poetics. It ranges from insightful close readings of the poetry to stimulating discussions of how these readings can be read with and against theoretical discourses that have shaped the study of Asian American literature.