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Article: The poetics of diasporas: Reconceptualizing home and identity in two Hong Kong poets

TitleThe poetics of diasporas: Reconceptualizing home and identity in two Hong Kong poets
離散的詩學:重構香港詩中的「家」與「身份」意象
Authors
KeywordsChinese diasporas
Dialogue
Hong Kong literature
Poetry
Social imaginary
Issue Date2010
PublisherTamkang University, English Department, Graduate Programs.
Citation
Tamkang Review, 2010, v. 40 n. 2, p. 41-77 How to Cite?
AbstractThis article examines some shared poetic texts that speak figuratively of the way the people of Hong Kong have managed to perceive and experience their lives. My analysis articulates the symbolic dimension of our sociocultural world through a process of rewriting and reconstruction. It traces the identifying characteristics of the Hong Kong imaginary arising from the cultural experiences and socio-historical conditions of specific periods of Hong Kong history and focuses on one of the meaning-producing forms of cultural significations-poetry- as a means of discovering the shared world of the cultural imaginary in the literary sphere. This article explores the notions of home and diaspora, which inform the construction of place and locality and exemplifies the crucial role Hong Kong plays in the Chinese diasporic experience, and poetry's capacity to translate the diasporic experience into social and cultural critique. It focuses on the work of Ou Waiou (1911-1995) and You Jing (b. 1966) because both poets responded personally and politically to the conditions leading to the Chinese diasporas and their poetry sheds light on the ways in which both geographical and intellectual displacement served as a critical device to reflect on the notions of identity and home, colonization and globalization.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/136330
ISSN
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.104
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dc.description.abstractThis article examines some shared poetic texts that speak figuratively of the way the people of Hong Kong have managed to perceive and experience their lives. My analysis articulates the symbolic dimension of our sociocultural world through a process of rewriting and reconstruction. It traces the identifying characteristics of the Hong Kong imaginary arising from the cultural experiences and socio-historical conditions of specific periods of Hong Kong history and focuses on one of the meaning-producing forms of cultural significations-poetry- as a means of discovering the shared world of the cultural imaginary in the literary sphere. This article explores the notions of home and diaspora, which inform the construction of place and locality and exemplifies the crucial role Hong Kong plays in the Chinese diasporic experience, and poetry's capacity to translate the diasporic experience into social and cultural critique. It focuses on the work of Ou Waiou (1911-1995) and You Jing (b. 1966) because both poets responded personally and politically to the conditions leading to the Chinese diasporas and their poetry sheds light on the ways in which both geographical and intellectual displacement served as a critical device to reflect on the notions of identity and home, colonization and globalization.en_HK
dc.languageengen_US
dc.publisherTamkang University, English Department, Graduate Programs.en_US
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dc.subjectChinese diasporasen_HK
dc.subjectDialogueen_HK
dc.subjectHong Kong literatureen_HK
dc.subjectPoetryen_HK
dc.subjectSocial imaginaryen_HK
dc.titleThe poetics of diasporas: Reconceptualizing home and identity in two Hong Kong poetsen_HK
dc.title離散的詩學:重構香港詩中的「家」與「身份」意象-
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