{"id":934,"date":"2019-11-14T12:58:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T17:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/?page_id=934"},"modified":"2019-12-18T14:45:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T19:45:02","slug":"han","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/han\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitsuye Yamada: A Focused View of Asian-American Second Wave Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"

This exhibit explores the intersection of Asian-American identity politics and second-wave feminism, with particular focus on how the works of Japanese-American writer Mitsuye Yamada deconstructed the racist attitudes toward and stereotypical perceptions of Asian-Americans. Yamada is a centerpiece of this exhibit for her persistence and efficacy in combating the societal apathy towards Asian-American adversity. Yamada\u2019s featured poems (along with her essay “Invisibility Is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman,” which she contributed to This Bridge Called My Back: Radical Writings from Women of Color<\/em> in 1981), <\/span>not only highlight the horrendous hardships endured by Japanese Americans during the 1940s, but also demonstrate the culture erasure in the following decades.<\/span><\/p>\n

This exhibit<\/span> also includes “When I Was Growing Up,” a poem by feminist writer Nellie Wong, in which Wong describes the desperation she had felt during adolescence to assimilate into white girlhood. Wong’s poem is a powerful demonstration of the dual pressures of being a woman of color in patriarchal, white America. <\/span>Then, to fully contextualize Asian-American-centric feminism during the second wave, this exhibit further includes Shirley Lim\u2019s essay \u201cReconstructing Asian-American Poetry: A Case For Ethnopoetics,\u201d published in a 1987 issue of Oxford University Press\u2019s <\/span>Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States<\/span><\/i>. Lim dissects the literary elements of Asian-American poetry, and, more importantly, describes the literary genre’s crucial role in correcting the racial ignorance of the Anglo-American mainstream.<\/span><\/p>\n

– Alex Han<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This exhibit explores the intersection of Asian-American identity politics and second-wave feminism, with particular focus on how the works of Japanese-American writer Mitsuye Yamada deconstructed the racist attitudes toward and stereotypical perceptions of Asian-Americans. Yamada is a centerpiece of this … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-934","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/934\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}