Transpacific Imaginations
History, Literature, Counterpoetics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19937415 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yunte Huang (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Publication date | 2008-12-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Reviewed by | Transpacific Imaginations: History, Literature, Counterpoetics, Hsuan L Hsu, 2009 |
| Venue | Transpacific Imaginations (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.4159/9780674273979 |
| OpenAlex | W1608797710 |
| Open Library | OL36183505M |
| ISBN | 9780674273979 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 37 |
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
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Literature · Pacific ocean · Poetics · Poetry · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Canadian Identity and History · Geology · History · Oceanography · Race, History, and American Society · 19th century · 20th century · American literature · Asian American authors · asian american authors, history and criticism · Asian influences · Foreign influences · History and criticism · in literature · Pacific Area
Antiracist Medievalisms
Reading the Transpacific Journey as Borderspace
Introduction
Thickly Studded Oriental Archipelagoes”
From the black Atlantic to the bleak Pacific
Connecting Atlantic and Pacific
Across currents
The motions of the oceans
Isabella Bird, Victorian globalism, and Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880)
Postscript
What is Asian German Studies
Introduction
The Problem of Study
The Eaton Sisters and the Figure of the Eurasian
The Last Puritan in Shanghai
White-Jacket
Transpacific Overtures
The Asian Turns
Translational Form in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being
Critical Refugee Studies and Native Pacific Studies
Ecologies of Entanglement in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Learning to Speak Chinese
Transoceanic America
The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature
Perilous Pacific
Inter-Imperiality
The Translational Turn and the Dual Pressures on Chinese Literary Studies
Introduction
The Rising Tide of the Transpacific
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,18 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2024 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |