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Chinese Whispers - Toward a Transpacific Poetics (Paperback)
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Chinese Whispers - Toward a Transpacific Poetics (Paperback)
Series: Thinking Literature
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Chinese Whispers examines multiple contact zones between the
Anglophone and Sinophone worlds, investigating how poetry both
enables and complicates the transpacific production of meaning. In
this new book, the noted critic and best-selling author Yunte Huang
explores the dynamics of poetry and poetics in the age of
globalization, particularly questions of translatability,
universality, and risk in the transpacific context. "Chinese
whispers" refers to an American children's game dating to the years
of the Cold War, a period in which everything Chinese, or even
Chinese sounding, was suspect. Taking up various manifestations of
the phrase in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Huang
investigates how poetry, always to a significant degree
untranslatable, complicates the transpacific production of meanings
and values. The book opens with the efforts of I. A. Richards,
arguably the founder of Anglo-American academic literary criticism,
to promote Basic English in China in the early twentieth century.
It culminates by resituating Ernest Fenollosa's famous essay "The
Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry," exploring the
ways in which Chinese has historically enriched but also entrapped
the Western conception of language.
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