American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounter

by Yuejun, Zhang; Christie, Stuart

• ISBN13: 9780230391710
• ISBN10: 0230391710
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-11-13
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This edition documents the growth of interest in modernist and contemporary American poetry by scholars both inside and outside China. While the tradition of Asian-American literature and criticism is well-established, there has been less exposure to how China-based critics have viewed the increasing popularity of canonical and emerging American poetry. The volume uses a variety of approaches to argue a central themethat the 'encounter' of American poetry with contemporary Chinese modernity is occasioning a radical refashioning of not only American perspectives on Chinese culture and values but of the impact of Western values upon the Chinese worldview.

Author Biography

Zhang Yuejun is a professor of English at Central South University. His research experience includes a Fulbright research fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania (2011-2012) and an appointment at the University of California at Berkeley as a Visiting Scholar (2002-2003). He is the author of In the American Grain: The Pragmatist Poetics of William Carlos Williams and numerous essays on Anglo-American literature and literary criticism in mainland China and Taiwan.

Stuart Christie is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is the author of two books, Worlding Forster: The Passage from Pastoral and Plural Sovereignties and Contemporary Indigenous Literature and his articles have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, PMLA, and Foreign Literature Studies among others.

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