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Racial Things, Racial Forms: Objecthood in Avant-Garde Asian American Poetry
Joseph Jonghyun Jeon
In Racial Things, Racial Forms, Joseph Jonghyun Jeon focuses on a coterie of under examined contemporary Asian American poets -- Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Myung Mi Kim, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and John Yau--who reject many of the characteristics of traditional minority writing, in particular the language of identity politics, which tends to challenge political marginalisation without contesting more fundamental assumptions about the construction of racial form. In the poets' various treatments of things (that is, objects of art), one witnesses a confluence of heretofore discrete factors: the avant-garde interest in objecthood and the racial question of objectification. By refashioning avant-garde investigations ... Read more
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