Chinese Whispers

Toward a Transpacific Poetics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvYunte Huang,Professor Yunte Huang

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-11-18
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieThinking Literature
Antal sidor184
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226822648

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List of FiguresIntroduction. Serve the People, Read Them Verse: A Transpacific Journey in Poetics and Politics1. Through the Looking Glass: Basic English, Chinglish, and Translocal Dialect2. Listening to Marco Polo: Sound, Money, and Vernacular Imagination3. Words Made in China: Ezra Pound as a Translational Poet4. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Too Big to Fail: Wallace Stevens, John Cage, and the Poetics of Risk5. Chinese Whispers: The Future of Meaning in the Age of InformationCoda: The Story of Mr. Shi Eating LionsAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

“An exile writer who fled the massacre of Tiananmen Square to begin a new literary life in American universities, Huang has a unique perspective on what he calls the ‘transpacific crossover’ between China and Anglo-America, particularly between our poetries, poetics, and translations. The Chinese Whispers of Huang’s title are those ‘inscrutable moments’ when poetry determines—and is determined by—political, national, and linguistic difference, dispelling all notions of universal intelligibility and global translatability. Indeed, Huang’s study details the ways our two literary cultures have in fact understood (and misunderstood) one another, using as test cases the works of I. A. Richards, Ernest Fenollosa, Lin Yutang, and Ezra Pound. Huang has produced a superb study that is theoretically sophisticated and yet also highly personal, witty, and deeply moving.”