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1033316
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b787686
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Main Entry
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Huang, Yunte.
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Title & Author
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Transpacific displacement : : ethnography, translation, and intertextual travel in twentieth-century American literature /\ Yunte Huang.
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Publication Statement
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Berkeley :: University of California Press,, ©2002.
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1 online resource (xv, 209 pages) :: illustrations
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ISBN
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0520928148
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: 0585466017
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: 1597349631
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: 6612355980
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: 9780520928145
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: 9780585466019
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: 9781597349635
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: 9786612355981
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0520228863
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0520232232
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1282355988
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9780520228863
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9780520232235
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9781282355989
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-201) and index.
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Contents
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Introduction -- Ethnographers-out-there: Percival Lowell, Ernest Fenollosa, and Florence Ayscough -- Ezra Pound: an ideographer or ethnographer? -- The intertextual travel of Amy Lowell -- The multifarious faces of the Chinese language -- Maxine Hong Kingston and the making of an "American" myth -- Translation as ethnography: problems in American translations of contemporary Chinese poetry.
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Abstract
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Yunte Huang takes a most original "ethnographic" approach to more and less well-known American texts as he traces what he calls the transpacific displacement of cultural meanings through twentieth-century America's imaging of Asia. Informed by the politic.
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Subject
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American literature-- Chinese American authors-- History and criticism.
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American literature-- Chinese influences.
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American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Chinese Americans in literature.
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Chinese Americans in mass media.
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Chinese Americans-- Intellectual life.
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Chinese literature-- Appreciation-- United States.
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Ethnology in literature.
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Immigrants in literature.
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Intertextuality.
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American literature
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American literature-- Chinese American authors
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American literature-- Chinese influences
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Chinese Americans in literature
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Chinese Americans in mass media
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Chinese literature-- Appreciation
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Ethnology in literature
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Immigrants in literature
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Intertextuality
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- Asian-- General.
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United States
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Dewey Classification
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810.9/005
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LC Classification
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PS153.C45H83 2002eb
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