{"product_id":"interventions-into-modernist-cultures-poetry-from-beyond-the-empty-screen-paperback","title":"Interventions into Modernist Cultures: Poetry from Beyond the Empty Screen - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmie Elizabeth Parry\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eInterventions into Modernist Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e is a comparative analysis of the cultural politics of modernist writing in the United States and Taiwan. Amie Elizabeth Parry argues that the two sites of modernism are linked by their representation or suppression of histories of U.S. imperialist expansion, Cold War neocolonial military presence, and economic influence in Asia. Focusing on poetry, a genre often overlooked in postcolonial theory, she contends that the radically fragmented form of modernist poetic texts is particularly well suited to representing U.S. imperialism and neocolonial modernities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading various works by U.S. expatriates Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, Parry compares the cultural politics of U.S. canonical modernism with alternative representations of temporality, hybridity, erasure, and sexuality in the work of the Taiwanese writers Yü Kwang-chung and Hsia Yü and the Asian American immigrant author Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Juxtaposing poems by Pound and Yü Kwang-chung, Parry shows how Yü's fragmented, ambivalent modernist form reveals the effects of neocolonialism while Pound denies and obscures U.S. imperialism in Asia, asserting a form of nondevelopmental universalism through both form and theme. Stein appropriates discourses of American modernity and identity to represent nonnormative desire and sexuality, and Parry contrasts this tendency with representations of sexuality in the contemporary experimental poetry of Hsia Yü. Finally, Parry highlights the different uses of modernist forms by Pound in his \u003ci\u003eCantos\u003c\/i\u003e-which incorporate a multiplicity of decontextualized and ahistorical voices-and by Cha in her 1982 novel \u003ci\u003eDictee\u003c\/i\u003e, a historicized, multilingual work. Parry's sophisticated readings provide a useful critical framework for apprehending how \"minor modernisms\" illuminate the histories erased by certain canonical modernist texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing together American and Taiwanese literature in ingenious and innovative ways, Amie Elizabeth Parry insistently juxtaposes critical theories of modernity with postcolonial studies to argue that conceptions of the modern cannot be thought outside of the 'ongoing transformations in and legacies of imperialism and colonialism.'--David Eng, author of \"Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmie Elizabeth Parry is Associate Professor of English at the National Central University in Taiwan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 9.2 x 6.34 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703036506419,"sku":"9780822338185","price":57.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/NW9pRUhMREJLNW1weDJCbklQV3pUZz09.webp?v=1763315991","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/interventions-into-modernist-cultures-poetry-from-beyond-the-empty-screen-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}