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Abstract
The leftist orientation of Asian American poetry, from the 1970s to the present day, demonstrates the aptness of cultural studies to analyse the equivocal relationship between the dominant American culture and the Asian American minority. The Marxist vein of cultural studies is exhibited in many Asian American poems which decry the capitalist exploitation of Asian Americans in America. On the other hand, many poems evidence Asian Americans’ prosperity in their adopted country. Aiming to authenticate its multiculturalism, the United States has attempted to accommodate the Asian American minority. Being a pluralistic community, America is governed by the mutual interdependence of its dominant culture and its subordinate subcultures. Since political opposition is a fundamental occupation of the subsidiary Asian American culture, Asian American political poetry undertakes to display the intricacies of Asian American versatile identities to refute the one-dimensional representations of Asian Americans by the dominant culture. Their performativity of various subject-positions is an anti-essentialist subversion of American ideological dogmas. Given that Asian American opposition is prone to invalidation on account of its amplification, many Asian American poets resort to concealing their chagrin. The contestation and the obfuscation of meanings are two methods by which they modulate their conflict with the dominant culture. This study employs the analytical tools of cultural studies to examine the cultural politics embedded in Asian American poetry.