Introduction
1 Canonical Modernisms, Minor Modernisms, and the Cultural Politics of Fragmentation
One. The Historicity of the Fragment: Toward a Critical Comparativism
Two. "Completely Painted Over but Painted Full of Empty Spaces": Stein's American Allegories and the End of Progress
Three. "Learning a Lesson in the Superficial Song Lyrics": Hsia Yu's "Underground" Poetry
Four. "For the Other Overlapping Time": Pound's Ideogramic Universalism and Cha's Countermodernist Translation
Conclusion. The Cultural Uses of an Interventionary Poetics.