Format:
Online-Ressource (xv, 209 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520232232
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0520228863
Content:
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 politics of linguistic appropriation and disappropriation, Transpacific Displacement opens with a radically new reading of Imagism through the work of Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell. Huang relates Imagism to earlier linguistic ethnographies of Asia and to racist representations of Asians in American pop culture, such as the book and movie character Charlie
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-201) and index
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Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Ethnographers-Out-There: Percival Lowell, Ernest Fenollosa, and Florence Ayscough; 2. Ezra Pound: An Ideographer or Ethnographer?; 3. The Intertextual Travel of Amy Lowell; 4. The Multifarious Faces of the Chinese Language; 5. Maxine Hong Kingston and the Making of an "American" Myth; 6. Translation as Ethnography: Problems in American Translations of Contemporary Chinese Poetry; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520232235
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Transpacific Displacement : Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature
Language:
English
