{"product_id":"transpacific-imaginations-yunte-huang-9780674026377","title":"Transpacific Imaginations: History, Literature, Counterpoetics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTranspacific Imaginations\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMoby Dick\u003c\/i\u003e as a Pacific work, looks at Henry Adams's not talking about his travels in Japan and the Pacific basin in his autobiography, and compares Mark Twain to Liang Qichao. Huang then turns to Asian American encounters with the Pacific, concentrating on the \"Angel Island\" poems and on works by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Araki Yasusada. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHuang's argument that the Pacific forms American literature more than is generally acknowledged is a major contribution to our understanding of literary history. The book is in dialogue with cross-cultural studies of the Pacific and with contemporary innovative poetics. Huang has found a vehicle to join Asians and Westerners at the deepest level, and that vehicle is poetry. Poets can best imagine an ethical ground upon which different people join hands. Huang asks us to contribute to this effort by understanding the poets and writers already in the process of linking diverse peoples.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yunte Huang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674026373\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674026377\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.52w x 0.73d","brand":"Yunte Huang","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44059467710719,"sku":"9780674026377","price":56.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ffa5924a-5a0b-413c-b4ee-6f8ebdd21510.jpg?v=1685058406","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/transpacific-imaginations-yunte-huang-9780674026377","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}