Transpacific Displacement : Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Huang, Yunte
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Intertextuality
Immigrants in literature
Ethnology in literature
Chinese literature > Appreciation
Chinese Americans in mass media
Chinese Americans in literature
American literature > Chinese influences
American literature > Chinese American authors
American literature
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Intertextualite.
Ethnologie dans la litterature.
Immigrants dans la litterature.
Americains d'origine chinoise dans la litterature.
Americains d'origine chinoise > Vie intellectuelle.
Litterature americaine > Influence chinoise.
Litterature chinoise > Appreciation > États-Unis.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > Auteurs americains d'origine chinoise > Histoire et critique.
Intertextuality.
Ethnology in literature.
Immigrants in literature.
Chinese Americans in literature.
Chinese Americans in mass media.
Chinese Americans > Intellectual life.
American literature > Chinese influences.
Chinese literature > Appreciation > United States.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > Chinese American authors > History and criticism.
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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