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Apparitions of Asia - Modernist Form and Asian American Poetics (Paperback)
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Apparitions of Asia - Modernist Form and Asian American Poetics (Paperback)
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Walt Whitman called the Orient "The Past! the Past! the Past!" but
East Asia was remarkably present for the United States in the
twentieth century. Apparitions of Asia 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. 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. l 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. Park argues that Pound's Orient was bound to
his America, and she traces this American-East Asian nexus into the
work of Gary Snyder, who found a native American spirituality in
Zen. The second half of Apparitions of Asia considers the creation
of Asian America against this backdrop of trans-pacific alliances.
Park analyzes the burden of American Orientalism for Asian American
poetry, and she argues that the innovations of Lawson Fusao Inada
offer a critique of this literary past. Finally, she analyzes two
Asian American poets, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Myung Mi Kim, who
return to modernist forms in order to reveal a history of American
interventions in East Asia.
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