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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818380403321

Titolo

Pacific Rim modernisms / / edited by Mary Ann Gillies, Helen Sword, and Steven Yao

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-4426-9755-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (388 p.)

Disciplina

909/.09823082

Soggetti

Modernism (Literature) - Pacific Area

Arts and society - Pacific Area

Pacific Area Civilization

Pacific Area Civilization Foreign influences

Pacifique, Région du Civilisation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sect. 1 Riffs on a Rim -- 1 A Rim with a View: Orientalism, Geography, and the Historiography of Modernism / Steven Yao -- 2 Modernisms, Pacific and Otherwise / David Palumbo-Liu -- Sect. 2 Terrains -- 3 Unpacking the Present: The Floating World of French Modernity / Christopher Bush -- 4 Rewriting the Literary History of Japanese Modernism / Sadami Suzuki -- 5 Modernism and Modern Korean Poetry of the 1930s / Choi Dong Ho -- 6 Bertrand Russell's Chinese Eyes / Eric Hayot -- Sect. 3 Tectonics -- 7 Blackfellows and Modernists: Not Just Black and White / Ann Stephen -- 8 From Sydney and Shanghai: Australian and Chinese Women Writing Modernism / Susan Carson -- 9 Fission/Fusion: Modanizumu in Japanese Fiction / William J. Tyler -- 10 Oceans Apart? Emily Carr's and Katherine Mansfield's Encounters with Modernisms / Mary Ann Gillies -- 11 The Art of the Bluff: Youth Migrancy, Interlingualism, and Japanese Vernacular Modernism in New Youth Magazine / Kyoko Omori -- 12 'Oriental Wonders, Odd Fabrics': Walking through Hispanic American Modemismo's Chinatown / Francisco Moran -- 13 Pacific Rim Digital Modernism: The Electronic



Literature of Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries / Jessica Pressman -- Postscript -- 14 Waking to Global Capitalism in Seoul, San Francisco, and Honolulu: Pacific Rim Refigurations of the Global and the Local / Rob Wilson.

Sommario/riassunto

Pacific Rim Modernisms explores the complex ways that writers, artists, and intellectuals of the Pacific Rim have contributed to modernist culture, literature, and identity.