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'Contemporary Asian Australian poets have recently begun to attract more attention, particularly with the publication of the anthology, edited by Adam Aitken, Kim Cheng Boey and Michelle Cahill, Contemporary Asian Australian Poets. This essay engages with three of these poets: Debbie Lim, Shen and James Stuart, and reads their poems through a diasporic lens. Contrary to scholarship that investigates belonging using the more orthodox ideas of home and land, this reading engages with fluidity and mobility through the depictions of water to better represent the diasporic experience. Further, these poems employ desire and the desiring subject to engage with the way diasporic belonging is figured as contested and contingent. Each of these elements will be explored in the poems in order to investigate the link between diasporic belonging and depictions of water.' (Publication abstract)
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Water, Diaspora and Desire : Belonging in Contemporary Asian Australian Poetry
Axon : Creative Explorations
Subjects:
- My Lover's Ear 2008 single work poetry
- Linger 2001 single work poetry
- Asian-Australian Diasporic Poets : A Commentary 2013 single work criticism
- Homing In : Essays on Australian Literature and Selfhood 2006 selected work criticism essay autobiography
- The Asian Conspiracy : Deploying Voice/Deploying Story 2010 single work criticism
- The Locals : Identity, Place and Belonging in Australia and beyond 2011 multi chapter work criticism
- Love or Meteorology 2003 single work poetry
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