{"id":14412,"date":"2020-05-07T12:21:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T16:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=14412"},"modified":"2020-05-07T12:32:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T16:32:50","slug":"anita-patterson","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/profiles\/anita-patterson\/","title":{"rendered":"Anita Patterson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>My research focuses on American literature, modernism, and black poetry of the Americas, and my approach, which emphasizes transnational and intercultural dialogue, is reflected in courses I have taught at all levels, including \u201cTransnational Modernism,\u201d \u201cAmerican Literature and Transculturation,\u201d \u201cAmerican Poetry,\u201d \u201cIntroduction to American Studies,\u201d and \u201cAmerican Literature and World Cultures.\u201d\u00a0 My first book,\u00a0<\/span><i>From Emerson to King:\u00a0 Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest<\/i><span>\u00a0(Oxford UP, 1997) examined Emerson\u2019s critical engagement with the dynamics of economic individualism and the debate over slavery, and showed how his writings fostered an abiding legacy of protest writing by African Americans such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King, Jr.\u00a0 In\u00a0<\/span><i>Race, American Literature and Transnational Modernisms<\/i><span>\u00a0(Cambridge UP, 2008), I developed a more global and comparative perspective.\u00a0 Placing American literature in a New World context, I explored how the poetry of Whitman, Poe, Eliot, and Pound, along with their Francophone avant-garde contemporaries in the Caribbean and in Europe, influenced African American modernists such as Langston Hughes, as well as Caribbean poets such as Derek Walcott, Wilson Harris, and Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire.\u00a0 My current book project,\u00a0<\/span><em>American Japonisme and Modernist Style,<\/em><span>\u00a0continues with my interest in transnationalism, intercultural exchange, and the American contexts of literary modernism.\u00a0<\/span><span>Here, however, I study how the opening of Japan, and the widening\u00a0popular appeal of Japanese culture in the latter half of the nineteenth\u00a0century, fostered an American literary tradition of transpacific exchange that\u00a0extends from Emerson, Okakura, and T. S. Eliot up through the Chicago Renaissance\u00a0and the\u00a0haiku-inspired poetry of Richard Wright.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16690,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/14412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/14412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14413,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/14412\/revisions\/14413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}