The Empire Within.

Yi combined words with modified numbers and ornaments, proving poet Elisa Gab-bert's argument that punctuation (think: Emily Dickinson's feral dashes) may be the "bare-minimum" criterion for what makes a piece of writing poetry. The BOOKS & ARTS NOT LONG AFTER THE PUBLICATION AND SURPRISE SUCCESS of her first novel, The God of Small Things, in 1997, Arundhati Roy was invited onto a live radio show in London. Yi Sang: Selected Works By Yi Sang Edited by Don Mee Choi Translated by Jack Jung, Don Mee Choi, Sawako Nakayasu, Joyelle McSweeney Wave Books. The question of speech and empire, and what language a colonial subject should use, is a constant subtext in the poems, essays, and fiction of the avant-garde modernist Yi Sang. [Extracted from the article]

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