Tonal Intelligence : : The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War / / Sunny Xiang.
Why were U.S. intelligence organizations so preoccupied with demystifying East and Southeast Asia during the mid-twentieth century? Sunny Xiang offers a new way of understanding the American cold war in Asia by tracing aesthetic manifestations of “Oriental inscrutability” across a wide range of text...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Literature Now
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 18 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction: Hardly War, Partly History
- Chapter One The Tone of Intelligence: Unconventional Warfare and Its Archives
- Chapter Two The Tone of Rumors: Imperial Tours and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Critique of Japanese Exceptionalism
- Chapter Three The Tone of the Times: Historical Temperament in the Works of Induk Pahk and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
- Chapter Four The Tone of Documentation: Combating the Brainwashee’s Drone in Korean War “Testimonies” and “Confessions”
- Chapter Five 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