Tracing the Lines
Reflections on Contemporary Poetics and Cultural Politics in Honour of Roy Miki
Will be published approx. on 10. January 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-88922-694-4 (ISBN)
Description
Like an artist's retrospective, Tracing the Lines marks a milestone in the life of an important public intellectual.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-88922-694-4 (9780889226944)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Maia Joseph focuses on Canadian urban literature, urbanism and regionalism, the ethics and politics of artistic practice and the interdisciplinary theorization of space and community.
Christine Kim researches Asian North American literature and theory, contemporary Canadian literature, feminist theory, print publics and diasporic writing.
Larissa Lai is also a novelist and poet. Her first full-length poetry book, Automaton Biographies (Arsenal Pulp, 2009), was a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.
Christopher Lee is the author of The Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature (Stanford University Press, 2012).
Content
Table of Contents
Introduction / The editors
Poetics
For Roy / Daphne Marlatt
Abdijection / Fred Wah
Abdijection 2 / Fred Wah
Voice / George Bowering
Love / George Bowering
Translation / George Bowering
The Hammer / Michael Barnholden
(in her ear) / Baco Ohama
"stuck in the acentred gesture": Disabling Roy Miki's Poetry / Nicole Markotic
Social Justice
Relations of Redress / Mona Oikawa
"Redress as a Gift": Historical Reparations and the Logic of the Gift in Roy Miki's Redress / Dave Gaertner
ASIANCY: Mapping the Literary / Phinder Dulai
Porous Praxis Script-in-Progress (a performance experiment) / The Sybils
Tottori City, 2009 / Cindy Mochizuki
Biotext
royologue / Ashok Mathur
homing / Ayaka Yoshimizu
Hono'uliuli Wire / Mark Nakada
Culturally Specific / David Fujino
The Daiso Stroll / Hiromi Goto
Institutions
An Open Letter: "Dear Generation"-Works and Days Tracing Roy Miki's Generational Literacy in The University and the City / Jerry Zaslove
The Public Intellectual / Susan Crean
"This thing called language": Reading and Writing in the Classroom / Alessandra Capperdoni
"i have altered my tactics to reflect the new era": Public Intellectuals and Community / Smaro Kamboureli
Interview
Between the Photograph and the Poem: A Dialogue on Poetic Practice / Roy Miki in discussion with Kirsten Emiko McAllister
Contributors
Index
Introduction / The editors
Poetics
For Roy / Daphne Marlatt
Abdijection / Fred Wah
Abdijection 2 / Fred Wah
Voice / George Bowering
Love / George Bowering
Translation / George Bowering
The Hammer / Michael Barnholden
(in her ear) / Baco Ohama
"stuck in the acentred gesture": Disabling Roy Miki's Poetry / Nicole Markotic
Social Justice
Relations of Redress / Mona Oikawa
"Redress as a Gift": Historical Reparations and the Logic of the Gift in Roy Miki's Redress / Dave Gaertner
ASIANCY: Mapping the Literary / Phinder Dulai
Porous Praxis Script-in-Progress (a performance experiment) / The Sybils
Tottori City, 2009 / Cindy Mochizuki
Biotext
royologue / Ashok Mathur
homing / Ayaka Yoshimizu
Hono'uliuli Wire / Mark Nakada
Culturally Specific / David Fujino
The Daiso Stroll / Hiromi Goto
Institutions
An Open Letter: "Dear Generation"-Works and Days Tracing Roy Miki's Generational Literacy in The University and the City / Jerry Zaslove
The Public Intellectual / Susan Crean
"This thing called language": Reading and Writing in the Classroom / Alessandra Capperdoni
"i have altered my tactics to reflect the new era": Public Intellectuals and Community / Smaro Kamboureli
Interview
Between the Photograph and the Poem: A Dialogue on Poetic Practice / Roy Miki in discussion with Kirsten Emiko McAllister
Contributors
Index