Transpacific Imaginations : : History, Literature, Counterpoetics / / Yunte Huang.
Transpacific Imaginations is a study of how American literature is enmeshed with the literatures of Asia. The book begins with Western encounters with the Pacific: Yunte Huang reads Moby Dick as a Pacific work, looks at Henry Adams’s not talking about his travels in Japan and the Pacific basin in hi...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (202 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Transpacific as a Critical Space
- PART ONE History: And the Views from the Shores
- 1 Mark Twain: Letters from Hawaii
- 2 Henry Adams: In Japan and the South Seas
- 3 Liang Qichao: A Journey to the New Continent
- PART TWO Literature: Moby-Dick in the Pacific
- 4 Collecting in the Pacific
- 5 Ahab’s Collectibles: The White Whale and the Yellow Tigers
- 6 Ishmael, a Pacific Historian
- 7 Queequeg, the Pacific Man
- 8 Melville’s Pacific Becoming: Fancy, Fate, Finis
- PART THREE Counterpoetics: Islands, Legends, Maps
- 9 The Poetics of Error: Angel Island
- 10 Legends from Camp: Lawson Fusao Inada
- 11 Mapping Histories: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
- Conclusion: Between History and Literature— A Poetics of Acknowledgment
- Notes
- Index