Yunte Huang

(Author)

Chinese Whispers: Toward a Transpacific PoeticsHardcover, 18 November 2022

Chinese Whispers: Toward a Transpacific Poetics
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Part of Series
Thinking Literature
Print Length
184 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Date Published
18 Nov 2022
ISBN-10
0226822648
ISBN-13
9780226822648

Description

Chinese Whispers examines multiple contact zones between the Anglophone and Sinophone worlds, investigating how poetry both enables and complicates the transpacific production of meaning.

In this new book, the noted critic and best-selling author Yunte Huang explores the dynamics of poetry and poetics in the age of globalization, particularly questions of translatability, universality, and risk in the transpacific context. "Chinese whispers" refers to an American children's game dating to the years of the Cold War, a period in which everything Chinese, or even Chinese sounding, was suspect. Taking up various manifestations of the phrase in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Huang investigates how poetry, always to a significant degree untranslatable, complicates the transpacific production of meanings and values.

The book opens with the efforts of I. A. Richards, arguably the founder of Anglo-American academic literary criticism, to promote Basic English in China in the early twentieth century. It culminates by resituating Ernest Fenollosa's famous essay "The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry," exploring the ways in which Chinese has historically enriched but also entrapped the Western conception of language.

Product Details

Author:
Yunte Huang
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
18 November 2022
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.24 x 1.42 cm
ISBN-10:
0226822648
ISBN-13:
9780226822648
Language:
English
Pages:
184
Weight:
449.06 gm

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