American Self, Asian Other: Strategies of De-othering and Transnational Peacemaking in Allen Ginsberg's 1960s Long Poems and Maxine Hong Kingston's Fifth Book of Peace
This article explores and compares the transnational ontologies, rhetorical strategies, and literary forms of political activism in the work of Allen Ginsberg and Maxine Hong Kingston, focusing on Ginsberg’s poems “Wichita Vortex Sutra” and “Iron Horse” and Kingston’s 2003 novel, The Fifth Book of Peace. It traces thei...