{"product_id":"9781350164000","title":"Literature and Race in the Democracy of Goods : Reading Contemporary Black and Asian North American Poetry","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eLiterature and Race in the Democracy of Goods\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Christopher Chen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book conducts a comparative study of three literary traditions - post-1960 Asian American, Asian Canadian and Black experimental poetry - which are usually examined separately. In so doing, it intervenes in conventional understandings of postwar North American racial formation and argues that through poetry we can examine the intersection between race and capitalism. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArguing that contemporary Black, Asian American and Asian Canadian poets such as Myung Mi Kim, Nathaniel Macket, Larissa Lai and Erica Hunt challenge established definitions of race, this book develops an account of experimental poetry's understanding of race as a range of relational configurations of subjects within racial groups and across racial divisions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn sum, this book redefines some of the basic terms of analysis of contemporary US poetry and poetics, critical race\/ethnic studies, racial capitalism and contemporary theories of comparative racialization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn this terrific new study, Chris Chen offers richly historicized and theoretically sophisticated readings of some very challenging but important texts by a group of so-called \"experimental\" writers in North America who have yet to receive widespread attention. Timely and much needed, \u003c\/i\u003eRace and Literature in the Democracy of Goods\u003ci\u003e brilliantly  coordinates and synthesizes insights from across several academic fields. It should be essential reading for anyone interested minority American poetics, Asian and Black racialization, and poetic and racial form.\" \u003c\/i\u003e” —\u003ci\u003eSteven Yao, Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English, Hamilton College, US\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781350164000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40814242988238,"sku":"9781350164000","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_c3fa3c85-7678-493a-a5c6-baee24d22b1d.jpg?v=1642750243","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781350164000","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}