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Literature and Race in the Democracy of Goods
Reading Contemporary Black and Asian North American Poetry
Literature and Race in the Democracy of Goods
Reading Contemporary Black and Asian North American Poetry
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Examining three literary traditions – post-1960 Asian American, Asian Canadian and Black experimental poetry – this book reframes contemporary scholarly accounts of post-war North American comparative racial group formation, demonstrating how such poetry investigates contemporary Black-Asian relations and maps the complex co-constitution of race and capitalism at different spatial scales.
Offering extended close readings of contemporary Black, Asian American and Asian Canadian experimental poets such as Myung Mi Kim, Erica Hunt, Larissa Lai and Ed Roberson, this book argues that these writers redefine race as a changing and politically contested form of constraint and possibility powerfully shaped by economic history and capitalist globalization.
This study retheorizes some basic terms of analysis of contemporary US poetry and poetics, critical race and ethnic studies, racial capitalism and contemporary theories of comparative and relational racialization.
Table of Contents
PART I: RACE IN THE MIRROR OF COMMODITY FORM
Chapter 1: 'Piece Logic': Race in the Mirror of Commodity Form
Chapter 2: 'In the Hollow Parts of Anything that Moves': Asiatic Racial Form and the Poetics of Containment
Chapter 3: 'Number, Form, Proportion, Situation': The Measure of Racial Comparison in Myung Mi Kim's Dura
PART II: RACE AS SERIALITY
Chapter 4: 'Where From, Where to are Faces of Here': Ed Roberson and the Seriality of Race
Chapter 5: 'An Axiomatic Chorus': Improvising Collectivity in Nathaniel Mackey's From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate
Product details
| Published | Oct 19 2023 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 232 |
| ISBN | 9781350278806 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Series | Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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