{"product_id":"the-asian-american-avantgarde-9781439912270","title":"The Asian American AvantGarde","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Asian American Avant-Garde \u003c\/i\u003eis the first book-length study that\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003econceptualizes 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBelieving 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 cubism. She draws comparisons between writers such as Sui Sin Far and Carlos Bulosan with modernist luminaries like Stein, Eliot, Pound, and Proust. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledging the anachronism of the term “Asian American” with respect to these avant-gardists, Clark attempts to reco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTABLE OF CONTENTS  Acknowledgmentsii  INTRODUCTION1  Toward an Asian American Modernism  CHAPTER ONE37  Chinatown as Universal Region   in Sui Sin Far's Mrs. Spring Fragrance  CHAPTER TWO96  \"Little Postage Stamps of Native Soil\":   The Modernist Haiku during Japanese Exclusion  CHAPTER THREE157  Renewing America in Dhan Gopal Mukerji's Caste and Outcast   and Younghill Kang's East Goes West  CHAPTER FOUR217  Popular Front Politics and Nonlinear Temporality  in Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart  CONCLUSION270  Asian American Universalism and the Radicalism  of Performing \"Assimilation\" during Asian Exclusion  Bibliography287\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408310804823,"sku":"9781439912270","price":20.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781439912270.jpg?v=1730502389","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-asian-american-avantgarde-9781439912270","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}