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

by Yunte Huang

Book Overview

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 politics of linguistic appropriation and disappropriation, Transpacific Displacement opens with a radically new reading of Imagism through the work of Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell. Huang relates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520232232
• ISBN13: 9780520232235
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"