Chinese Whispers: Toward a Transpacific Poetics

by Yunte Huang

Book Overview

Chinese Whispers examines multiple contact zones between the Anglophone and Sinophone worlds, investigating how poetry both enables and complicates the transpacific production of meaning.

In this new book, the noted critic and best-selling author Yunte Huang explores the dynamics of poetry and poetics in the age of globalization, particularly questions of translatability, universality, and risk in the transpacific context. "Chinese...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226822648
• ISBN13: 9780226822648
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"