Ethnicity, ecopoetics, and Fred Wah's Biotext

Peter Jaeger

doi:10.1080/17449851003706784

Ethnicity, ecopoetics, and Fred Wah's Biotext

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Abstract

The Asian-Canadian writer Fred Wah uses the term "biotext" instead of the more conventional terms autobiography or life writing to describe his work. Wah's biotexts employ many of the formal practices of contemporary innovative poetics in order to complic

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	199-208
Journal	Journal of Postcolonial Writing
Volume	46
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/17449851003706784
Publication status	Published - 2010

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