Pacific Rim modernismsedited by Mary Ann Gillies, Helen Sword and Steven Yao. - Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2009. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2010). - 1 online resource (xiv, 373 pages : illustrations)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Sect. 1 Riffs on a Rim -- 1 A Rim with a View: Orientalism, Geography, and the Historiography of Modernism / 2 Modernisms, Pacific and Otherwise / Sect. 2 Terrains -- 3 Unpacking the Present: The Floating World of French Modernity / 4 Rewriting the Literary History of Japanese Modernism / 5 Modernism and Modern Korean Poetry of the 1930s / 6 Bertrand Russell's Chinese Eyes / Sect. 3 Tectonics -- 7 Blackfellows and Modernists: Not Just Black and White / 8 From Sydney and Shanghai: Australian and Chinese Women Writing Modernism / 9 Fission/Fusion: Modanizumu in Japanese Fiction / 10 Oceans Apart? Emily Carr's and Katherine Mansfield's Encounters with Modernisms / 11 The Art of the Bluff: Youth Migrancy, Interlingualism, and Japanese Vernacular Modernism in New Youth Magazine / 12 'Oriental Wonders, Odd Fabrics': Walking through Hispanic American Modemismo's Chinatown / 13 Pacific Rim Digital Modernism: The Electronic Literature of Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries / Postscript -- 14 Waking to Global Capitalism in Seoul, San Francisco, and Honolulu: Pacific Rim Refigurations of the Global and the Local / Steven Yao -- David Palumbo-Liu -- Christopher Bush -- Sadami Suzuki -- Choi Dong Ho -- Eric Hayot -- Ann Stephen -- Susan Carson -- William J. Tyler -- Mary Ann Gillies -- Kyoko Omori -- Francisco Moran -- Jessica Pressman -- Rob Wilson.

Pacific Rim Modernisms explores the complex ways that writers, artists, and intellectuals of the Pacific Rim have contributed to modernist culture, literature, and identity.



9781442697553




Modernism (Literature)--Pacific Area.
Arts and society--Pacific Area.


Electronic Books.

DU18 / .P335 2009