The Asian American avant-garde : universalist aspirations in modernist literature and art
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The Asian American avant-garde : universalist aspirations in modernist literature and art
(Asian American history and culture series)(American literatures initiative)
Temple University Press, 2015
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-224) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Asian American Avant-Garde is the first book-length study that conceptualizes a long-neglected canon of early Asian American literature and art. Audrey Wu Clark traces a genealogy of counter-universalism in short fiction, poetry, novels, and art produced by writers and artists of Asian descent who were responding to their contemporary period of Asian exclusion in the United States, between the years 1882 and 1945.
Believing in the promise of an inclusive America, these avant-gardists critiqued racism as well as institutionalized art. Clark examines racial outsiders including Isamu Noguchi, Dong Kingman and Yun Gee to show how they engaged with modernist ideas, particularly cubism. She draws comparisons between writers such as Sui Sin Far and Carlos Bulosan with modernist luminaries like Stein, Eliot, Pound, and Proust.
Acknowledging the anachronism of the term "Asian American" with respect to these avant-gardists, Clark attempts to reconstruct it. The Asian American Avant-Garde explores the ways in which these artists and writers responded to their racialization and the Orientalism that took place in modernist writing.
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgmentsii INTRODUCTION1 Toward an Asian American Modernism CHAPTER ONE37 Chinatown as Universal Region in Sui Sin Far's Mrs. Spring Fragrance CHAPTER TWO96 "Little Postage Stamps of Native Soil": The Modernist Haiku during Japanese Exclusion CHAPTER THREE157 Renewing America in Dhan Gopal Mukerji's Caste and Outcast and Younghill Kang's East Goes West CHAPTER FOUR217 Popular Front Politics and Nonlinear Temporality in Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart CONCLUSION270 Asian American Universalism and the Radicalism of Performing "Assimilation" during Asian Exclusion Bibliography287
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