 | Intransitive Encounter: Sino-U.S. Literatures and the Limits of Exchange Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- Chinese influences; United States -- Relations -- China; Chinese literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Chinese literature -- American influences; China --; Nan Z. Da offers an in-depth study of nineteenth-century Sino-U.S. literary interactions that highlights their lack of transpacific interpollination. Intransitive Encounter is an unconventional and theoretically rich reflection on global meetings and imaginings that do not fit the patterns proclaimed by postcolonial and literary studies. Da Nan : Nan Da (University of Michigan, Ph.D.) is assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. Her scholarly essays have been published in American Literary History , Signs , J19 , and The Henry James Review . She has also published in The Los Angeles Review of Books and Public Books. Nan Z. Da is an assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. |
