Interventions Into Modernist Cultures - Poetry From Beyond the Empty Screen

Informationen zum Autor Amie Elizabeth Parry Klappentext A comparative analysis of the cultural politics of modernist writing in Taiwan and the United States, as well as in immigrant Asian American writing. Zusammenfassung Presents a comparative analysis of the cultural politics of modernist writing in the United States and Taiwan. This title argues that the two sites of modernism are linked by their representation or suppression of histories of US imperialist expansion! Cold War neo-colonial military presence! and economic influence in Asia. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction / Canonical Modernisms, Minor Modernisms, and the Cultural Politics of Fragmentation 1 1 / The Historicity of the Fragment: Toward a Critical Comparativism 21 2 / “Completely Painted Over but Painted Full of Empty Spaces”: Stein’s American Allegories and the End of Progress 44 3 / “Learning a Lesson in the Superficial Song Lyrics”: Hsia Yü’s “Underground” Poetry 80 4 / “For the Other Overlapping Time”: Pound’s Ideogramic Universalism and Cha’s Countermodernist Translation 113 Conclusion / The Cultural Uses of an Interventionary Poetics 148 Notes 153 Works Cited 171 Index 181

Product details

• Authors: Amie Elizabeth Parry
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2007
• EAN: 9780822338031
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3803-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities; Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities: A Series; Perverse Modernities
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies