Transpacific Imaginations

Name: Transpacific Imaginations
Brand: Harvard University Press
SKU: 9780674026377
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History, Literature, Counterpoetics

Автор: Yunte Huang

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Корици: С твърди корици

Издател: Harvard University Press

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"Transpacific Imaginations" is a study of how American literature is enmeshed with the literatures o...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Yunte Huang

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2008

страници

202

EAN

9780674026377

ISBN

0674026373

Enbook ID

04635065

Издател

Harvard University Press

Теглоt

442

Размери

156 x 235 x 18

Пълно описание

"Transpacific Imaginations" is a study of how American literature is enmeshed with the literatures of Asia. The book begins with Western encounters with the Pacific: Yunte Huang reads Moby-Dick as a Pacific work, looks at Henry Adams' not talking about his travels in Japan and the Pacific basin in his autobiography, and compares Mark Twain to Liang Qichao. Huang then turns to Asian American encounters with the Pacific, concentrating on the Angel Island poems and on works by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Araki Yasusada.Huang's argument that the Pacific forms American literature more than is generally acknowledged is a major contribution to our understanding of literary history. The book is in dialogue with cross-cultural studies of the Pacific and with contemporary innovative poetics. Huang has found a vehicle to join Asians and Westerners at the deepest level, and that vehicle is poetry. Poets can best imagine an ethical ground upon which different people join hands. Huang asks us to contribute to this effort by understanding the poets and writers already in the process of linking diverse peoples.

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