Sunny Xiang

Tonal Intelligence

The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War

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Produktbeschreibung

Sunny Xiang offers a new way of understanding the American cold war in Asia by tracing aesthetic manifestations of à â Å Oriental inscrutabilityà â  across a wide range of texts. She puts interrogation reports, policy memos, and field notes into conversation with novels, poems, documentaries, and mixed media work.

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Produktdetails

• Literature Now
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780231196970
• ISBN-10: 0231196970
• Artikelnr.: 60020130

Autorenporträt

Sunny Xiang

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Hardly War, Partly History
1. The Tone of Intelligence: Unconventional Warfare and Its Archives
2. The Tone of Rumors: Imperial Tours and Kazuo Ishiguro's Critique of
Japanese Exceptionalism
3. The Tone of the Times: Historical Temperament in the Works of Induk Pahk
and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
4. The Tone of Documentation: Combating the Brainwashee's Drone in Korean
War "Testimonies" and "Confessions"
5. The Tone of Intimacy: Imperial Brotherhood and Trinh T. Minh-ha's
Cinematic Interviews
Coda-the Tone of Commons: Solidarities Without a Solid
Notes
Bibliography
Index