"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"

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction / Canonical Modernisms, Minor Modernisms, and the Cultural Politics of Fragmentation 1
1 / The Historicity of the Fragment: Toward a Critical Comparativism 21
2 / “Completely Painted Over but Painted Full of Empty Spaces”: Stein’s American Allegories and the End of Progress 44
3 / “Learning a Lesson in the Superficial Song Lyrics”: Hsia Yü’s “Underground” Poetry 80
4 / “For the Other Overlapping Time”: Pound’s Ideogramic Universalism and Cha’s Countermodernist Translation 113
Conclusion / The Cultural Uses of an Interventionary Poetics 148
Notes 153
Works Cited 171
Index 181