Return of the Chinese Femme (ePub)
The speaker in Dorothy Chan's fifth collection, Return of the Chinese Femme, walks through life fearlessly, forehead forever...
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An unabashed exploration of queerness, excess, identity, and tenderness from award-winning poet Dorothy Chan.
The speaker in Dorothy Chan's fifth collection, Return of the Chinese Femme, walks through life fearlessly, forehead forever exposed, the East Asian symbol of female aggression. She's the troublemaker protagonistthe So Chinese Girlthe queer in a family of straights the rambunctious ringleader of the girl band, always ready with the perfect comeback, wearing a blue fur coat, drinking a whiskey neat. They indulge on the themes of food, sex, fantasy, fetish, popular culture, and intimacy.
Chan organizes the collection in the form of a tasting menu, offering the reader a taste of each running theme. Triple sonnets, recipe poems, and other inventive plays on diction and form pepper the collection. Amidst the bravado, Return of the Chinese Femme represents all aspects of her identityAsian heritage, queerness, kid of immigrants' storyin the most real ways possible, conquering the world through joy and resilience.
Chan is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Book Reviews Co-Editor of Pleiades, and Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of Honey Literary Inc., a 501(c)(3) BIPOC literary arts organization, run by women, femme, and queer editors of color. Chan was the 2021 Resident Artist for Toward One Wisconsin. They were a 2022 recipient of the University of Wisconsin System's Dr. P.B. Poorman Award for Outstanding Achievement on Behalf of LGBTQ People. Visit their website at dorothypoetry.com
- Autor: Dorothy Chan
- 2024, 148 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Deep Vellum Publishing
- ISBN-10: 1646053257
- ISBN-13: 9781646053254
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.04.2024
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