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050 00 $aPS159.A85$bH83 2008
082 00 $a810.9/325$222
100 1 $aHuang, Yunte.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96063413
245 10 $aTranspacific imaginations :$bhistory, literature, counterpoetics /$cYunte Huang.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c2008.
300 $axi, 187 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [159]-178) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: The Transpacific as a Critical Space -- $gPt. 1.$tHistory: And the Views from the Shores -- $g1.$tMark Twain: Letters from Hawaii -- $g2.$tHenry Adams: In Japan and the South Seas -- $g3.$tLiang Qichao: A Journey to the New Continent -- $gPt. 2.$tLiterature: Moby-Dick in the Pacific -- $g4.$tCollecting in the Pacific -- $g5.$tAhab's Collectibles: The White Whale and the Yellow Tigers -- $g6.$tIshmael, a Pacific Historian -- $g7.$tQueequeg, the Pacific Man -- $g8.$tMelville's Pacific Becoming: Fancy, Fate, Finis -- $gPt. 3.$tCounterpoetics: Islands, Legends, Maps -- $g9.$tThe Poetics of Error: Angel Island -- $g10.$tLegends from Camp: Lawson Fusao Inada -- $g11.$tMapping Histories: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha -- $tConclusion: Between History and Literature - A Poetics of Acknowledgment.
520 1 $a"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 history. The book is in dialogue with cross-cultural studies of the Pacific and with contemporary innovative poetics. Huang has found a vehicle to join Asians and Westerners at the deepest level, and that vehicle is poetry. Poets can best imagine an ethical ground upon which different people join hands. Huang asks us to contribute to this effort by understanding the poets and writers already in the process of linking diverse peoples."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xAsian influences.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101047
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101049
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xAsian American authors$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009114796
651 0 $aPacific Area$xIn literature.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0718/2007020027.html
852 00 $bglx$hPS159.A85$iH83 2008