Transpacific Imaginations History, Literature, Counterpoetics

Name: Transpacific Imaginations History, Literature, Counterpoetics
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ISBN: 9780674026377

ISBN-10: 0674026373

ISBN-13: 9780674026377

Edition: 2008

Authors: Yunte Huang

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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's 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…

Book details

List price: $52.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 2/28/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.49" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

?Yunte Huang is Professor of English at University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Transpacific Displacement.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Transpacific as a Critical Space



History: And the Views from the Shores



Mark Twain: Letters from Hawaii



Henry Adams: In Japan and the South Seas



Liang Qichao: A Journey to the New Continent



Literature: Moby-Dick in the Pacific



Collecting in the Pacific



Ahab's Collectibles: The White Whale and the Yellow Tigers



Ishmael, a Pacific Historian



Queequeg, the Pacific Man



Melville's Pacific Becoming: Fancy, Fate, Finis



Counterpoetics: Islands, Legends, Maps



The Poetics of Error: Angel Island



Legends from Camp: Lawson Fusao Inada



Mapping Histories: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha


Conclusion: Between History and Literature-A Poetics of Acknowledgment


Notes


Index