Asian American Poetry (Critical Survey of Poetry)
An Overview of a Pluralistic Tradition
“Asian Americans” are in fact diverse groups of people whose ethnicity cannot be pinned down by a single label. As immigrants or descendants of immigrants from various regions of Asia and at different junctures in the history of the United States, Asian American poets bring with them heterogeneous cultural values, practices, and expressions that interact with the “mainstream” Anglo- and Euro-American culture in various ways. Asian American poetry, the product of such interactions for more than a century, is therefore inherently...
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