The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity in Asian American Poetry

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Index Adorno, Theodor W., 280 aesthetics, 21; of alterity, 134; corporeal , 25, 28, 30. See also Emmanuel Levinas AIDS, 22, 168, 182, 183, 187 Aiiieeeee! (Chan et al.), 170, 178 alterity: in Asian American poetry, 19–20; and cultural transformation , 135, 166; of culturally marginalized other, 70; of diasporic subjects, 234; ethics of, 5, 13, 16, 19, 21, 23, 52, 103, 134, 151, 162, 201, 275, 277; of female other, 134; as form of resistance and intervention , 19; irreducible, 4, 19, 30, 32, 67, 82, 89–90, 112, 113, 114, 118, 125, 128, 195, 206, 245, 270, 273, 280; loss of, 18; poetics of, 16, 20, 30, 52, 84, 91, 101, 275, 277; violation of, 50. See also Emmanuel Levinas, other, otherness, selfother relationship Altieri, Charles, 37, 91–92 Andrews, Bruce, 199, 258 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 12, 276 Ariel (Plath), 168 Asian American: critics, 8–9; feminist literary theory, 13; history, 86–87; poetics, 13, 19; poetry, 5, 9, 17, 37, 91, 104; poets, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10, 13, 17–18, 275–76, 277–78, 280; subject, 9; women writers, 72 Asian Americans: and assimilation, 1, 89; essentialized differences, 238; invisibility of, 3; lack of individuality of, 4; lack of subjectivity of, 4; otherness of, 1, 2, 10; as perpetual foreigners, 2; political struggles of, 10. See also stereotypes assimilation, 39, 72, 77, 78, 86, 88, 118; resistance to, 69, 71 Balcazo, Dan, 169 Baldwin, James, 104, 121 Baraka, Amiri, 74 Bataille, Georges, 179, 183, 187–88, 189 Beckett, Samuel, 238 Benveniste, Emile, 200 Bergman, David, 170–71 Bernstein, Charles, 198–99, 219, 257–58, 259 Berryman, John, 120 Bhabha, Homi, 127, 131, 277 Biggers, Earl Derr, 209, 213 Bloom, Harold, 6, 30, 101, 102, 278 Boas, Franz, 35 body, 25–26, 35–36, 37, 38–39, 55, 63, 93; American politic, 10; Asian American, 26, 27; of Asian men, 126–27, 169; of Asian women, 71; Chinese, 60; as contested site, 62, 63; as cultural text, 35; female, 135, 138, 139, 144, 269; immigrant, 56; raced and gendered, 4, 25, 26, 40–41, 56, 148; racialized, 38, 60, 65, 121, 123, 144, 153, 169, 204, 214; as site of resistance, 34–35; of white women, 129. See also corporeal , corporeality Bow, Leslie, 71–72 Brooks, Gwendolyn, 74 Buber, Martin, 69 Buell, Lawrence, 48–49 Butler, Judith, 171, 175, 177, 186, 215, 224; theory of performativity of, 124, 179–80 Cartesian self, 4, 5, 7, 11, 13, 69, 90; rejection of, 200; subjectivity of, 28, 29, 273, 278 Cassatt, Mary, 149 Cavafy, C. P., 70–71, 74 Celan, Paul, 237, 238 Césaire, Aimé, 109–10 Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung, 237, 238 Chagall, Marc, 22 Chan, Charlie, 209, 211–12, 213–14, 215, 217, 218, 221 Chicano poetry, 5 Chin, Frank, 79 Chin, Marilyn, 4, 6, 13, 21, 66–101, 112, 123, 128, 133, 134, 135, 142, 170, 178, 279; and assimilation, 71, 72, 77, 78, 88, 89; and Daoism, 72–73, 88; and ethical self-other relationship , 67, 69, 76, 77, 99, 101; and female other, 85–86; and hybrid cultural identity, 91; influence of blues on, 74–75; and irony, 83, 84, 88, 92; and lyric I, 66, 67, 69, 74, 76, 77, 78, 81–82, 84–85, 86–88, 92–93; and self as frontier, 66–67, 70, 74, 76 Chin, Marilyn (Works): “Art Wong Is Alive and Ill and Struggling in Oakland California,” 78–82; “Barbarian Suite,” 72–74; “The Barbarians Are Coming,” 70–71; “Blues on Yellow,” 74, 75; “Chinaman ’s Chance,” 82–85; “The Cricket,” 77; Dwarf Bamboo, 67, 86; “The End of a Beginning,” 6, 67–68, 70; “Exile’s Letter (Or: An Essay on Assimilation),” 67, 86; “The Gilded Cangue,” 101; “Homage to Diane Toy,” 86; “Hospital Interlude,” 74; “How I Got That Name,” 86–91; “Millennium Six Songs,” 74; “Narrow Roads of Oku,” 77; “The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty,” 92– 101; The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty, 70, 86; Rhapsody in Plain Yellow, 74; “The Tao and the Art of Leave Taking,” 77; “Unreal Dwelling,” 77; “Where We Live Now,” 86 Chinese: Americans, 67–68, 76, 78, 79, 80–84; Exclusion Act, 87; immigrants, 1, 75, 80, 82, 84, 87, 92 Chow, Rey, 112, 277, 278 Christian, Barbara, 276 Chuang Tzu, 70, 72 Chuh, Kandice, 10–11 citizenship, 1, 10, 71, 238–39 Cixous, Hélène, 157 Clément, Catherine, 157 Cohen, Richard A., 15 colonialism, 19, 109, 110, 231, 234, 245, 247, 255, 265, 268; resistance...