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The Asian American Avant-Garde: Universalist Aspirations in Modernist Literature and Art

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Description for The Asian American Avant-Garde: Universalist Aspirations in Modernist Literature and Art Paperback. Series: Asian American History & Culture. Num Pages: 222 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DS; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.

The Asian American Avant-Garde is the first book-length study that conceptualizes a long-neglected canon of early Asian American literature and art. Audrey Wu Clark traces a genealogy of counter-universalism in short fiction, poetry, novels, and art produced by writers and artists of Asian descent who were responding to their contemporary period of Asian exclusion in the United States, between the years 1882 and 1945.

Believing in the promise of an inclusive America, these avant-gardists critiqued racism as well as institutionalized art. Clark examines racial outsiders including Isamu Noguchi, Dong Kingman and Yun Gee to show how they engaged with modernist ideas, particularly ... Read more

Acknowledging the anachronism of the term “Asian American” with respect to these avant-gardists, Clark attempts to reconstruct it. The Asian American Avant-Garde explores the ways in which these artists and writers responded to their racialization and the Orientalism that took place in modernist writing.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
Series
Asian American History & Culture
Number of Pages
222
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781439912270
SKU
V9781439912270
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About Audrey Wu Clark
Audrey Wu Clark is an Assistant Professor of English at the United States Naval Academy.

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