@article{1479366,
      recid = {1479366},
      author = {Huang, Yunte, },
      title = {Transpacific Imaginations : History, Literature,  Counterpoetics /},
      pages = {1 online resource (202 p.)},
      abstract = {Transpacific Imaginations is a study of how American  literature is enmeshed with the literatures of Asia. The  book begins with Western encounters with the Pacific: Yunte  Huang reads Moby Dick as a Pacific work, looks at Henry  Adams's not talking about his travels in Japan and the  Pacific basin in his autobiography, and compares Mark Twain  to Liang Qichao. Huang then turns to Asian American  encounters with the Pacific, concentrating on the "Angel  Island" poems and on works by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Lawson  Fusao Inada, and Araki Yasusada. Huang's argument that the  Pacific forms American literature more than is generally  acknowledged is a major contribution to our understanding  of literary history. The book is in dialogue with  cross-cultural studies of the Pacific and with contemporary  innovative poetics. Huang has found a vehicle to join  Asians and Westerners at the deepest level, and that  vehicle is poetry. Poets can best imagine an ethical ground  upon which different people join hands. Huang asks us to  contribute to this effort by understanding the poets and  writers already in the process of linking diverse peoples.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479366},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674273979},
}