Session Details

Friday, 07 January

173. The Avant-Garde in Contemporary Chinese Poetry

8:30–9:45 a.m., 306B, LA Convention Center

A special session

Presiding: Christopher M. Lupke, Washington State Univ., Pullman

1. “Beyond Lyrical Bounds: Avant-Garde Narrative Poetry from Contemporary China,” Christopher M. Lupke

2. “The Lightness of History in Contemporary Chinese Poetry,” Shengqing Wu, Wesleyan Univ.

3. “Garde and Avant: Audience and Time in Contemporary Chinese Poetry,” Nick Admussen, Princeton Univ.

4. “Of Language and Beyond: The Poetry of Singaporean Poet Ng Kwang Cheng,” E. K. Tan, Stony Brook Univ., State Univ. of New York

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