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. Â
General
Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Thinking Literature |
Release date: |
November 2022 |
Authors: |
Yunte Huang
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
184 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-82264-8 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-226-82264-8 |
Barcode: |
9780226822648 |
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