Interventions Into Modernist Cultures by Amie Elizabeth Parry

Interventions Into Modernist Cultures by Amie Elizabeth Parry

Offers an analysis of the cultural politics of modernist writing in the United States and Taiwan. This book argues that the two sites of modernism are linked by their representation or suppression of histories of US imperialist expansion, Cold War neo-colonial military presence, and economic influence in Asia.

“Bringing together American and Taiwanese literature in ingenious and innovative ways, Amie Elizabeth Parry insistently juxtaposes critical theories of modernity with postcolonial studies to argue that conceptions of the modern cannot be thought outside of the ‘ongoing transformations in and legacies of imperialism and colonialism’”—David Eng, author of Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America
“In this original and outstanding book, Amie Elizabeth Parry opens up new ways of reading and approaching U.S. and Asian modern literary cultures. Through her compelling and theoretically deft close readings of ‘minor’ modernists and experimental writers, modernist formations between the United States and East Asia are made to interact, comment on, and challenge the seemingly abstract or formalized claims of poetic innovation and geopolitical situation.”—Rob Wilson, coeditor of Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary

Amie Elizabeth Parry is Associate Professor of English at the National Central University in Taiwan.

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ISBN 13	9780822338185
ISBN 10	0822338181
Title	Interventions Into Modernist Cultures
Author	Amie Elizabeth Parry
Series	Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited By Jack Halberstam And Lisa Lowe
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Duke University Press
Year published	2007-04-30
Number of pages	200
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