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Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8910567 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tara Fickle (University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 78-105 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Literature Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4132 • E-ISSN: 1528-4212 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/complitstudies.51.1.0078 |
| OpenAlex | W177286550 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This article interrogates the limits of the “playful” genre that Timothy Yu has recently defined as Asian American experimental or avant-garde poetry. Through the work of John Yau, Brian Kim Stefans, Fred Wah, and others, I demonstrate the centrality of Wittgensteinian poetics to the aesthetic innovations of contemporary Asian North American poets whose language games challenge normative assumptions about the relationship between language, literature, and identity
Aesthetics · Art · Asian americans · Centrality · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Identity (music · Linguistics · Literature · Normative · Poetics · Poetry · Sociology · Anthropology · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |