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Yone Noguchi's delightful, groundbreaking essays of the 1920s and
1930s, previously available only in hard-to-obtain periodicals, are
collected here for the first time in this Noguchi Project Edition.
The 22 essays range across Japanese poetry, No drama, art,
autobiography, travel, and international relations. The essays are
edited and introduced by Edward Marx.
In The Idea of a Colony, Edward Marx provides a comprehensive
approach to the question of cross-culturalism in modern poetry. He
situates the work of canonical British and American modernist poets
- Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Brooke, Kipling, and Flecker - in dialogue
with the work of non-Western, colonial, and minority poets -
Tagore, Naidu, Violet Nicolson - and brings into the discussion the
poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Drawing on psychological and
cultural theory, Marx argues that primitivism and exoticism were
the main forms of cross-culturalism in the modern period, and that
these forms were organized around repression of the unconscious and
irrational. To the psychological scene of the primitive/exotic poem
and its reception, which is explored through substantial archival
research, Marx brings an array of approaches including the theories
of Freud, Jung, Lacan, Said, Foucault, Bhabha, Fanon, and others.
The result is a series of powerful new readings of canonical
modernists and a welcome expansion of the field of modern poetry
into the age of multiculturalism and postcoloniality.
This was the first American novel by a writer of Japanese ancestry,
and as such is a landmark of modern American fiction and
Japanese-American transnationalism. Targeting the American fantasy
of Madame Butterfly, Noguchi's New Woman heroine freely dispenses
her insights on Japanese culture and American lifestyles.
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