Apparitions of Asia Modernist Form and Asian American Poetics

Name: Apparitions of Asia Modernist Form and Asian American Poetics
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ISBN: 9780195332735

ISBN-10: 0195332733

ISBN-13: 9780195332735

Edition: 2007

Authors: Josephine Park

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Walt Whitman called the Orient "The Past! the Past! the Past!" but East Asia was remarkably present for the United States in the twentieth century. Apparitions of Asia reads American literary expressions of a century of U.S.-East Asian alliances in which the Far East is imagined as near and contemporary. Commercial and political bridges across the Pacific generated American literary fantasies of ethical and spiritual accord; Apparitions of Asia examines American bards who capitalized on these ties and interrogates the price of such intimacies for Asian American poets. Park begins her literary history with the poetry of Ernest Fenollosa, who called for 'The Future Union of East and West.'…

Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/5/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 9.30" wide x 6.40" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Josephine Nock-Hee Park is assistant professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.



Introduction



Cathay to Confucius: Ezra Pound and China



Beatific Orientalism: Gary Snyder and Zen



Beats and Bandits: Lawson Fusao Inada and the Asian American Movement



Modern Warfare: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Myung Mi Kim


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index