Interventions into Modernist Cultures: Poetry from Beyond the Empty Screen

by Amie Elizabeth Parry

Book Overview

Interventions into Modernist Cultures is a comparative analysis of the cultural politics of modernist writing in the United States and Taiwan. Amie Elizabeth Parry argues that the two sites of modernism are linked by their representation or suppression of histories of U.S. imperialist expansion, Cold War neocolonial military presence, and economic influence in Asia. Focusing on poetry, a genre often overlooked in postcolonial theory, she contends...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822338181
• ISBN13: 9780822338185
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"