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Author Huang, Yunte.

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

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 209 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-201) and index.
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.
Summary 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
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English.
Subject American literature -- Chinese American authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- Chinese American authors.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Chinese literature -- Appreciation -- United States.
Chinese literature -- Appreciation.
United States.
American literature -- Chinese influences.
American literature -- Chinese influences.
Chinese Americans -- Intellectual life.
Chinese Americans.
Intellectual life.
Chinese Americans in mass media.
Chinese Americans in mass media.
Chinese Americans in literature.
Chinese Americans in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
Ethnology in literature.
Ethnology in literature.
Intertextuality.
Intertextuality.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Indexed Term Litteratur Engelsk, amerikansk litteratur.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Transpacific displacement Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002. 0520228863 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2001027241
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