Flesh, Tongue by Yao, Yaya

Flesh, Tongue (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781927494677)

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Format: Paperback
$18.95
$18.95
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Flesh, Tongue by Yao, Yaya

Flesh, Tongue

$18.95
Flesh, Tongue by Yao, Yaya

Flesh, Tongue

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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In this brilliant and provocative first collection, Yaya Yao confronts her inherited fragmented self and her hunger for a home, using scraps of personal and communal memory to bridge languages, worldviews, and physical distance from her ancestral homeland. Bits of Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, and Shanghainese are translated and altered to explore the dynamics between language and identity. In this collection, Yaya Yao has created a unique and authentic voice.



Author: Yaya Yao
ISBN-10: 1927494672
ISBN-13: 9781927494677
Publisher: Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2015
Pages: 64
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.30w x 0.30d
By Yaya Yao
By Yaya Yao
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Yaya Yao was born and raised in Toronto's Parkdale and Little Portugal neighbourhoods with a lot of languages around her: Cantonese, Mandarin Hokkien, Shanghainese and French and English. Yaya's poems have been published in several journals, including TOK7, Contemporary Verse 2, and the Toronto Review of Books. Her short play, Tongued, received staged readings through playwrights' units with Nightwood and fu-GEN Theatre companies, and she is co-author, with Helen Anderson, of the Educator's Equity Companion Guide.

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