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Year of the Snake

By Lee Ann Roripaugh

Book information

Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Year
2004
ISBN
9780809388844, 9780809325696
LCC
PS3568
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
261 kB (266965 bytes)
Series
Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Ser.
Edition
1
Pages
80\80
Time added
2023-08-05 10:53:30
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Description

In her second collection of poems, Lee Ann Roripaugh probes themes of mixed-race female identities, evoking the molting processes of snakes and insects who shed their skins and shells as an ongoing metaphor for transformation of self. Intertwining contemporary renditions of traditional Japanese myths and fairy tales with poems that explore the landscape of childhood and early adolescence, she blurs the boundaries between myth and memory, between real and imagined selves. This collection explores cultural, psychological, and physical liminalities and exposes the diasporic arc cast by first-generation Asian American mothers and their second-generation daughters, revealing a desire for metamorphosis of self through time, geography, culture, and myth.

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