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- The Cambridge History of American Modernism
- The Cambridge History of American Modernism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Methodologies
- Part II Forms, Genre, and Media
- Part III Situating US Modernism
- 25 War
- 26 Modernism, Personality, and the Racialized State
- 27 Modernism of the Streets
- 28 Late Modernism
- 29 Transnational Circuits and Homemade Machines
- 30 The American Metropolis
- 31 Hemispheric Modernisms, Imperial Modernisms
- 32 Southern Modernism
- 33 Transpacific Modernism
- 34 Indigenous Modernism
- 35 Sketching the Terrain of African American Modernism
- 36 The New Woman and American Modernism
- 37 Celebrity and American Modernism
- Select Bibliography
- Index
33 - Transpacific Modernism
from Part III - Situating US Modernism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2023
- The Cambridge History of American Modernism
- The Cambridge History of American Modernism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Methodologies
- Part II Forms, Genre, and Media
- Part III Situating US Modernism
- 25 War
- 26 Modernism, Personality, and the Racialized State
- 27 Modernism of the Streets
- 28 Late Modernism
- 29 Transnational Circuits and Homemade Machines
- 30 The American Metropolis
- 31 Hemispheric Modernisms, Imperial Modernisms
- 32 Southern Modernism
- 33 Transpacific Modernism
- 34 Indigenous Modernism
- 35 Sketching the Terrain of African American Modernism
- 36 The New Woman and American Modernism
- 37 Celebrity and American Modernism
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter returns to American fascination with the Orient in the modernist era to consider the work of Asian writers in the US in a period of rising nativism and hardening policies of exclusion. The modernist aesthete and the modern liberal mark out defining poles for the reception of literary works by Asians in this period, and my discussion is structured around the influence of the high modernist orientalism of Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell in the work of Sadakichi Hartmann and Yone Noguchi, the strictures of Pearl Buck’s interwar humanitarianism for the work of Lin Yutang and H. T. Tsiang, and finally a pair of writers unfettered by prevailing Orientalist modes, Carlos Bulosan and José Garcia Villa. All of these writers present transpacific imaginations unconstrained by their constituting bonds: they fashioned new selves, pitched anti-imperialist philosophies, and produced electrifying art.
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- The Cambridge History of American Modernism , pp. 557 - 572Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023