Transpacific displacement : ethnography, translation, and intertextual travel in twentieth-century American literature /

Transpacific displacement : ethnography, translation, and intertextual travel in twentieth-century American literature / Yunte Huang.

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Yunte Huang takes a most original "ethnographic" approach to more and less well-known American texts as he traces what he calls the transpacific displacement of cultural meanings through twentieth-century America's imaging of Asia. Informed by the politic.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Huang, Yunte
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.
Subjects:
American literature > Chinese American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Chinese literature > Appreciation > United States.
American literature > Chinese influences.
Chinese Americans > Intellectual life.
Chinese Americans in mass media.
Chinese Americans in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
Ethnology in literature.
Intertextuality.
American literature.
American literature > Chinese American authors.
Chinese literature > Appreciation.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Ethnographers-out-there: Percival Lowell, Ernest Fenollosa, and Florence Ayscough
  • Ezra Pound: an ideographer or ethnographer?
  • The intertextual travel of Amy Lowell
  • The multifarious faces of the Chinese language
  • Maxine Hong Kingston and the making of an "American" myth
  • Translation as ethnography: problems in American translations of contemporary Chinese poetry.

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