Racial Things, Racial Forms

Focuses on a coterie of under examined contemporary Asian American poets - Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Myung Mi Kim, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and John Yau - who reject many of the characteristics of traditional minority writing, in particular the language of identity politics, which tends to challenge political marginalisation without contesting more fundamental assumptions about the construction of racial form.