Chinese Whispers
Toward a Transpacific Poetics
- Author: Yunte Huang
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.
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Citation Information
- Full Title: Chinese Whispers: Toward a Transpacific Poetics
- Series: Thinking Literature
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date: 2022
- Publisher Website: Link
