American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounter 2012th Edition

‘China talks back!: American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounter takes on American/Eurocentric transnationalism and explores the ways China has been ventriloquized, not to say Orientalized . . . by such key American poets as Williams, Pound, Auden, Hughes, Ginsberg, and alternative poetics in the Angel Island poems. This anthology marks a turning point for Chinese/American comparative poetics.’ – Charles Bernstein, Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania

‘Finally we have a statement by Chinese-based scholars about their culture’s relationship to twentieth-century American poetry. The book is intricately structured to cover three periods of interaction – the high-modern construction of ‘Chineseness,’ the West’s interest in China’s revolutionary ferment, and the period where Chinese hegemony enjoins dialogue and mutual learning. Most striking is these scholars’commitment to a historicism capable of resisting Western categories and yet reconfiguring our mutual imaginings of the future we are creating together.’ – Charles Altieri, Rachael Anderson Stageberg Professor of English, University of California