Beschreibung:
Amie Elizabeth Parry is Associate Professor of English at the National Central University in Taiwan.
A comparative analysis of the cultural politics of modernist writing in Taiwan and the United States, as well as in immigrant Asian American writing.
Acknowledgments viiIntroduction / Canonical Modernisms, Minor Modernisms, and the Cultural Politics of Fragmentation 11 / The Historicity of the Fragment: Toward a Critical Comparativism 212 / “Completely Painted Over but Painted Full of Empty Spaces”: Stein’s American Allegories and the End of Progress 443 / “Learning a Lesson in the Superficial Song Lyrics”: Hsia Yü’s “Underground” Poetry 804 / “For the Other Overlapping Time”: Pound’s Ideogramic Universalism and Cha’s Countermodernist Translation 113Conclusion / The Cultural Uses of an Interventionary Poetics 148Notes 153Works Cited 171Index 181