Pacific Rim Modernisms / / Mary Ann Gillies, Steven Yao, Helen Sword.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• TeilnehmendeR: Gillies, Mary Ann,; Sword, Helen,; Yao, Steven,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The Pacific Rim is a geographical region made up of all areas bordered by the Pacific Ocean, its span reaching countries as diverse as the Canada, Korea, China, Mexico, and Australia. Tracing vectors of appropriation, migration, and exchange, Pacific Rim Modernisms explores the complex ways that writers, artists, and intellectuals of the Pacific Rim have contributed to modernist culture, literature, and identity.Appropriately, given their wide geographical and temporal sweep, the fourteen essays gathered in this volume reflect a range of scholarly perspectives and methodologies, expressing varied viewpoints, divergent voices, and even contradictory definitions of Modernism itself. By placing geographical rather than political boundaries at the centre of academic inquiry, Pacific Rim Modernisms seeks not only to redraw old boundaries but to open up the modernist landscape to new mappings and new debates.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Section One: Riffs on a Rim -- 1. A Rim with a View: Orientalism, Geography, and the Historiography of Modernism / Yao, Steven -- 2. Modernisms, Pacific and Otherwise / Palumbo-Liu, David -- Section Two: Terrains -- 3. Unpacking the Present: The Floating World of French Modernity / Bush, Christopher -- 4. Rewriting the Literary History of Japanese Modernism / Suzuki, Sadami -- 5. Modernism and Modern Korean Poetry of the 1930s / Ho, Choi Dong -- 6. Bertrand Russell's Chinese Eyes / Hayot, Eric -- Section Three: Tectonics -- 7. Blackfellows and Modernists: Not Just Black and White / Stephen, Ann -- 8. From Sydney and Shanghai: Australian and Chinese Women Writing Modernism / Carson, Susan -- 9. Fission/Fusion: Modanizumu in Japanese Fiction / Tyler, William J. -- 10. Oceans Apart? Emily Carr's and Katherine Mansfi eld's Encounters with Modernisms / Gillies, Mary Ann -- 11. The Art of the Bluff: Youth Migrancy, Interlingualism, and Japanese Vernacular Modernism in New Youth Magazine / Omori, Kyoko -- 12. 'Oriental Wonders, Odd Fabrics': Walking through Hispanic American Modernismo's Chinatown / Morán, Francisco -- 13. Pacific Rim Digital Modernism: The Electronic Literature of Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries / Pressman, Jessica -- Postscript -- 14. Waking to Global Capitalism in Seoul, San Francisco, and Honolulu: Pacific Rim Refigurations of the Global and the Local / Wilson, Rob -- Contributors -- Index