Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir - Couverture rigide

Ravinthiran, Vidyan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1785788620 ISBN 13 : 9781785788628

Editeur : Icon Books, 2025

Synopsis

A perceptive exploration of poetry, race, and otherness from one of our most promising voices in criticism.


Vidyan Ravinthiran was born in the north of England to Sri Lankan Tamils, and moved to the United States five years ago. Considering identity in both its political and psychological senses - as these concepts fuse, or fail to, at different times and in different places - he leaps adventurously between memoir and criticism, understanding his life through poetry, and vice versa. Ranging from Andrew Marvell to Divya Victor, he writes both about and through poems, discussing Sri Lanka; experiences of racism and resilience; intergenerational trauma; pandemic parenting in an autism family; relationships shaped by the internet; growing up with a speech impediment and being sent by one's aspirational brown parents to elocution lessons; and the relative invisibility of South Asians in Western television and film. This electric, compelling hybrid memoir discovers a new way of writing about the self and also literature.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Vidyan Ravinthiran was born in Leeds, England, to Sri Lankan Tamils. He now teaches at Harvard University. He writes both poetry and literary criticism.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Icon Books
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1785788620
• ISBN 13: 9781785788628
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
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• Personne responsable: non disponible