A Congeries of Lichee Nuts for America:

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" A Congeries of Lichee Nuts for America: "
Yuemin He

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081599
Doc. No	:	LA125228
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685292-12341258‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Yuemin He
Title & Author	:	A Congeries of Lichee Nuts for America: [Article] : Chinese Religion in Edgar Lee Masters’s New York Chinatown Poetry Collection\ Yuemin He
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2013
Volume/ Issue Number	:	17/1-2
Page No	:	135–156
Abstract	:	Active in several genres of writing and extremely productive, American poet Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950) became famous almost overnight with his earlier collection of free verse monologues, The Spoon River Anthology (1915). But as quickly as he rose in prominence, his fame declined thereafter. In the past decades, critics usually regarded The Spoon River Anthology as Masters’s best collection. This essay takes a step toward uncovering the value of Masters’s other work by examining one aspect of Lichee Nuts, a book-length collection of short poems published in 1929. This essay reveals that Masters, a prescient poet, not only displays sophisticated understanding of the composite and complex nature of Chinese religion, but also uses that understanding to construct a positive poetic image of the Chinese. In doing so he actively promotes cultural diversity in a time of racial hysteria and adumbrates the emergence of countercultural voices that transmit spirituality to a Western culture mired in materialism.
Descriptor	:	America’s transformation of Buddhism
Descriptor	:	Art History
Descriptor	:	Buddhism
Descriptor	:	Chinatown poetry
Descriptor	:	Chinese religion
Descriptor	:	Christianity
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Confucianism
Descriptor	:	early twentieth-century American poetry
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	History
Descriptor	:	Orientalism
Descriptor	:	positive representation
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	synergic
Descriptor	:	Taoism
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685292-12341258‬