England's Asian Renaissance

England's Asian Renaissance
ISBN-10
1644532425
ISBN-13
9781644532423
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
145
Language
English
Published
2021-12-17
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Authors
Carmen Nocentelli, Su Fang Ng

Description

England's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports changed England's tastes and enriched the English language, Eastern themes, characters, and motifs helped shape the country's culture and contributed to its national identity. Questioning long-standing dichotomies between East and West and embracing a capacious understanding of translatio as geographic movement, linquistic transformation, and cultural grafting, the collection gives pride of place to convergence, approximation, and hybridity, thus underscoring the radical mobility of early modern culture. In so doing, England's Asian Renaissance also moves away from entrenched narratives of Western cultural sovereignty to think anew England's debts to Asia. Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

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