Beschreibung:
Amie Elizabeth Parry
"Bringing together American and Taiwanese literature in ingenious and innovative ways, Amie Elizabeth Parry insistently juxtaposes critical theories of modernity with postcolonial studies to argue that conceptions of the modern cannot be thought outside of the 'ongoing transformations in and legacies of imperialism and colonialism.'"--David Eng, author of "Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America"
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