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Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature. By Huang Yunte. [Berkeley, CA and London: University of California Press, 2002. xv+209 pp. $ 24.95. ISBN 0-520-23223-2.]

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2003

Extract

The key words provided in the title – “ethnography,” “translation” and “intertextual travel” – as well as various combinations of these terms, explain the contents of this book, which sets out two main aims: to give an exposition of Orientalist cultural work in 20th-century American letters; and to consider this cultural work from a textual point of view.

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Book Reviews
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© The China Quarterly, 2003

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