"So there it is" : an exploration of cultural hybridity in contemporary Asian American poetry / / Brigitte Wallinger-Schorn.
In interpreting contemporary Asian American poetry, it is important to understand the cultural hybridity of Asian America identity, located at the interstices of the fixed identifications ‘American’, ‘Asian American’, and ‘Asian’. This rootedness in more than one culture exposes the inapplicability...
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