Asian Canadian Photopoetics Fred Wah’s “Sentenced to Light”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22346997 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Glenn Deer (University of British Columbia Hospital, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 63-83 |
| Publication date | 2015-02-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2352-3077 • E-ISSN: 2352-3085 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/23523085-00101004 |
| OpenAlex | W2024686506 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Asian Canadian Photopoetics describes the self-conscious epistemological interplay between photographs and Fred Wah’s “prose-poem sentences,” a process that graphically unfolds “around” the photographs in Sentenced to Light (2008). Wah’s photopoetics, influenced by Roy Kiyooka and racialized Asian Canadian contexts, are primarily marked by figures of ellipsis and extrapolation. These photopoetic tactics support “a poetics of the hyphen, another tool in the resistance to closure that sustains the dynamics of ‘betweenness’.”
Art · Betweenness centrality · Linguistics · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Sociology · Artistic and Creative Research · History · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |