Amie Elizabeth Parry is Associate Professor of English at the National Central University in Taiwan.

“Bringing together American and Taiwanese literature in ingenious and innovative ways, Amie Elizabeth Parry insistently juxtaposes critical theories of modernity with postcolonial studies to argue that conceptions of the modern cannot be thought outside of the ‘ongoing transformations in and legacies of imperialism and colonialism.’”-David Eng, author of Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America “In this original and outstanding book, Amie Elizabeth Parry opens up new ways of reading and approaching U.S. and Asian modern literary cultures. Through her compelling and theoretically deft close readings of ‘minor’ modernists and experimental writers, modernist formations between the United States and East Asia are made to interact, comment on, and challenge the seemingly abstract or formalized claims of poetic innovation and geopolitical situation.”-Rob Wilson, coeditor of Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary

• Acknowledgments viiIntroduction / Canonical Modernisms, Minor Modernisms, and the Cultural Politics of Fragmentation 11 / The Historicity of the Fragment: Toward a Critical Comparativism 212 / “Completely Painted Over but Painted Full of Empty Spaces”: Stein’s American Allegories and the End of Progress 443 / “Learning a Lesson in the Superficial Song Lyrics”: Hsia YÜ’s “Underground” Poetry 804 / “For the Other Overlapping Time”: Pound’s Ideogramic Universalism and Cha’s Countermodernist Translation 113Conclusion / The Cultural Uses of an Interventionary Poetics 148Notes 153Works Cited 171Index 181

Amie Elizabeth Parry is Associate Professor of English at the National Central University in Taiwan.

“Bringing together American and Taiwanese literature in ingenious and innovative ways, Amie Elizabeth Parry insistently juxtaposes critical theories of modernity with postcolonial studies to argue that conceptions of the modern cannot be thought outside of the ‘ongoing transformations in and legacies of imperialism and colonialism.’”-David Eng, author of Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America “In this original and outstanding book, Amie Elizabeth Parry opens up new ways of reading and approaching U.S. and Asian modern literary cultures. Through her compelling and theoretically deft close readings of ‘minor’ modernists and experimental writers, modernist formations between the United States and East Asia are made to interact, comment on, and challenge the seemingly abstract or formalized claims of poetic innovation and geopolitical situation.”-Rob Wilson, coeditor of Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary

• Acknowledgments viiIntroduction / Canonical Modernisms, Minor Modernisms, and the Cultural Politics of Fragmentation 11 / The Historicity of the Fragment: Toward a Critical Comparativism 212 / “Completely Painted Over but Painted Full of Empty Spaces”: Stein’s American Allegories and the End of Progress 443 / “Learning a Lesson in the Superficial Song Lyrics”: Hsia YÜ’s “Underground” Poetry 804 / “For the Other Overlapping Time”: Pound’s Ideogramic Universalism and Cha’s Countermodernist Translation 113Conclusion / The Cultural Uses of an Interventionary Poetics 148Notes 153Works Cited 171Index 181