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- Title
Hannah Lowe and Sarah Howe: Multicultural Heritage and Questions of Identity.
- Authors
Wong, Jennifer
- Abstract
In their respective debut collections Chick and Loop of Jade , Hannah Lowe and Sarah Howe explore the questions of identity and cultural hybridity through semi-autobiographical family narratives. Conscious of their partial Chinese ancestry, their poetry reflects what it means or feels to self-perceive or be taken as 'the Other'. In this article, I analyse and compare their poetry to shed light on the significance and representation of multicultural heritage in contemporary women's poetry, with reference to the multiple identities of the female figure. In particular, their different writing approaches explore the questions of identity for a multicultural poet and the necessity of exoticism and self-exoticism. Through close reading of their poetry and interviews with these authors, I examine the experimentation of poetic form and language in their work, the role of imagination in connecting personal with collective history, and the complexities that underlie the relationship between poetic language, racial, and class barriers.
- Subjects
LOWE, Hannah; LOWE, Sarah; WOMEN in poetry; NARRATIVES; EXOTICISM in literature
- Publication
English: The Journal of the English Association, 2020, Vol 69, Issue 266, p246
- ISSN
0013-8215
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/english/efaa015