{"product_id":"apparitions-of-asia-modernist-form-and-asian-american-poetics-9780199397969","title":"Apparitions of Asia: Modernist Form and Asian American Poetics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWalt Whitman called the Orient The Past! The Past! The Past! but East Asia was remarkably present for the United States in the twentieth century.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eApparitions of Asia\u003c\/em\u003e reads American literary expressions during a century of U.S.-East Asian alliances in which the Far East is imagined as both near and contemporary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Commercial and political bridges across the Pacific generated American literary fantasies of ethical and spiritual accord; Park examines American bards who capitalized on these ties and considers the price of such intimacies for Asian American poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003el l The book begins its literary history with the poetry of Ernest Fenollosa, who called for The Future Union of East and West. From this prime instigator of the Gilded Age, Park newly considers the Orient of Ezra Pound, who turned to China to lay the groundwork for his poetics and ethics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePark argues that Pound's Orient was bound to his America, and she traces this American-East Asian nexus to the work of Gary Snyder, who found a native American spirituality in Zen. The second half of \u003cem\u003eApparitions of Asia\u003c\/em\u003e considers the creation of Asian America against this backdrop of trans-Pacific alliances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePark analyzes the burden of American Orientalism on Asian American poetry, and she argues that the innovations of Lawson Fusao Inada offer a critique of this literary past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinally, she analyzes two Asian American poets, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Myung Mi Kim, who return to modernist forms in order to reveal a\u003cbr\u003ehistory of American interventions in East Asia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Josephine Park\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199397969\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJosephine Park\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39934216634483,"sku":"0199397961","price":62.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_e49ef21d-26ab-4fe2-b886-ad6b6f40b383.jpg?v=1647877987","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/apparitions-of-asia-modernist-form-and-asian-american-poetics-9780199397969","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}