RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Breaking from Tradition: Experimental Poems by Four Contemporary Asian American Women Poets A1 Xiaojing, Zhou AB This paper examines the themes and technical strategies in the experimentalpoems by three 20th-Century Asian American women poets—Cathy Song, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and Kimiko Hahn— through closereading. While challenging Bloom’s theory of “poetic influence” andAnglo-American feminist theories for constructing an alternative traditionof women writers, my analysis considers the importance of thesubject positionalities of gender, race, and ethnicity in shaping the poeticsof Asian American women poets. PB Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna SN e-2530-8335 YR 1998 FD 1998 LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/30510 UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/30510 LA en DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna RD 19-nov-2024