Asian American Literature in Transition, 1850-1930: Volume 1

Herausgeber: Lee, Josephine; Lee, Julia H

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book provides new scholarship on Asian North American literature and culture from an often-neglected historical period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 198mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781108830836
• ISBN-10: 1108830838
• Artikelnr.: 60579670

Inhaltsangabe

I. Empire and Resistance: 1. Reframing Colonial Fantasy and Benevolent
Violence: Marriage, Family, and 'Global' Racial Consciousness in Edith
Eaton's Caribbean Stories Yu-Fang Cho; 2. Uncollected: Remapping Sui Sin
Far/Edith Maude Eaton Hsuan Hsu and Edlie Wong; 3. South Asian American
Anticolonial Writings: Critical Reflections on Race, Empire, and
Immigration in North America Seema Sohi; 4. Challenging Enactments of
Power: Remembering the Komagata Maru Incident in Drama and Performance
Nandi Bhatia; 5. Saum Song Bo on the Statue of Liberty: A Protest Against
U.S. Chinese Exclusion and French Imperialism Cynthia Wu; 6. Island in
Between: The Politics of Place in the Poetry of Angel Island Julia H. Lee;
II. Bodies at Work and Play: 7. Objects of an Orientalist Gaze: Chinese
Immigrants in American Silent Film Philippa Gates; 8. Labor, Freedom, and
Typicality in Chinese Canadian Railroad Fiction Christopher Lee; 9. Bret
Harte's 'Heathen Chinee' in US Literature after Slavery Caroline Yang; 10.
On the Genealogy of Asian American Drama Sean Metzger; 11. Decorative
Orientalism Josephine Lee; III. Crossings: 12. Affect and Form in the
Writings of the Eaton Sisters Dominika Ferens; 13. Osato-san's Hands:
Untimely Tales Gesture to Humanity's Horizons Andrew Leong; 14.
Revolutionary Formalisms Audrey Wu Clark; 15. Slave to Love: Racial Form in
Early Asian American Miscegenation Plots Jolie Sheffer; 16. Anna May Wong's
Greetings to the World Yiman Wang.