Transpacific Imaginations: History, Literature, Counterpoetics

by Yunte Huang

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674026373
• ISBN13: 9780674026377
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.5"