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Seminar
WiSe 22/23: Asian-American Poetry
David Wachter
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While Asian American writers have been substantially contributing to US poetry for a very long time, their achievements have only begun to be recognized since the 1980s and 1990s. Since then, more than 50 centers and academic programs for the study of their culture and writing have been founded, and organizations such as the Asian American Writer’s Workshop or Kundiman have begun to support their creative work. Various literary anthologies have appeared, particularly over the last years, and distinguished writers such as Don Mee Choi or Arthur Sze have been granted prestigious awards such as the National Book Award for Poetry. In this course we explore the fascinating area of Asian American poetry from the 1960s to the present day. In a series of close readings, we discuss the representation of diverse issues such as home, migration, identity, violence, subjectivity or perception and investigate formal experiments of surrealism, documentalism, phenomenology or multilingualism. Readings include works by Li-Young Lee, Marilyn Chin, John Yau, Theresa Hak-Kyung Cha, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Don Mee Choi, Arthur Sze, and Ocean Vuong. close
Suggested reading
Introductory Reading:
Dorothy J. Wang: Thinking its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry, Stanford: Stanford UP, 2014; Michael Leong: Traditions of Innovation in Asian American Poetry, in: The Cambridge Companion to 21st Century American Poetry, ed. by Timothy Yu, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2021, pp. 31-47.
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16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2022-10-19 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-10-26 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-11-02 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-11-09 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-11-16 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-11-23 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-11-30 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-12-07 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2022-12-14 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2023-01-04 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2023-01-11 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2023-01-18 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2023-01-25 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2023-02-01 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2023-02-08 14:00 - 16:00
Wed, 2023-02-15 14:00 - 16:00