{"id":18434,"date":"2011-11-25T03:58:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T03:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=18434"},"modified":"2014-11-24T00:55:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T00:55:54","slug":"faking-it-critical-writing-1984-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=18434","title":{"rendered":"Faking It: Poetics &#038; Hybridity: Critical Writing 1984-1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/newestpress.com\/books\/faking-it-critical-writing-1984-1999\" target=\"_blank\">Faking It: Poetics &amp; Hybridity: Critical Writing 1984-1999<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newestpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">NeWest Press<\/a><br \/>\nSpring 2000<br \/>\n288 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN 13: 978-1-896300-07-8<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredwah.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fred Wah<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newestpress.com\/books\/faking-it-critical-writing-1984-1999\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newestpress.com\/sites\/default\/files\/Faking%20It.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to Fred Wah, the act of thinking critically is one of exploration and discovery. In <em>Faking It<\/em>, Wah demonstrates how writing poetry is writing critically. This scrapbook of Wah\u2019s work\u2014collected from fifteen years of his writing\u2014contains essays, reviews, journals, notes and, most importantly, poetic improvisations on contemporary poetry and identity. <em>Faking It<\/em> was written between 1984 and 1999\u2014during major shifts in critical thinking and cultural production\u2014and the hybrid style of the book is an apt reflection of these changing times, as well as a reflection and study of Wah\u2019s own hybrid identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faking It: Poetics &amp; Hybridity: Critical Writing 1984-1999 NeWest Press Spring 2000 288 pages Paperback ISBN 13: 978-1-896300-07-8 Fred Wah According to Fred Wah, the act of thinking critically is one of exploration and discovery. In Faking It, Wah demonstrates how writing poetry is writing critically. This scrapbook of Wah\u2019s work\u2014collected from fifteen years of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,19,125,8,17,1617],"tags":[8386,8387],"class_list":["post-18434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-books","category-canada","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-poetry-books","tag-fred-wah","tag-newest-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}