{"product_id":"transpacific-imaginations-history-literature-counterpoetics","title":"Transpacific Imaginations: History  Literature  Counterpoetics","description":"\u003cp\u003eTranspacific 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 Adamss 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.  Huangs 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986860961845,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674026373","price":45.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674026377.jpg?v=1770919481","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/transpacific-imaginations-history-literature-counterpoetics","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}