Sitting in Darkness : : Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization / / Hsuan L. Hsu.
Perhaps the most popular of all canonicalAmerican authors, Mark Twain is famous for creating works that satirizeAmerican formations of race and empire. While many scholars have exploredTwain’s work in African Americanist contexts, his writing on Asia and AsianAmericans remains largely in the shadows...
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Hsu, Hsuan L., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Sitting in Darkness : Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization / Hsuan L. Hsu. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda America and the Long 19th Century ; 7 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. “Coolies” and Comparative Racialization in the Global West -- 1. “A Witness More Powerful than Himself -- 2. Vagrancy and Comparative Racialization in Huckleberry Finn and “Three Vagabonds of Trinidad” -- 3. “Coolies” and Corporate Personhood in Those Extraordinary Twins -- 4. A Connecticut Yankee in the Court of Wu Chih Tien -- 5. Body Counts and Comparative Anti-imperialism -- Conclusion. Post-racial Twain? -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Perhaps the most popular of all canonicalAmerican authors, Mark Twain is famous for creating works that satirizeAmerican formations of race and empire. While many scholars have exploredTwain’s work in African Americanist contexts, his writing on Asia and AsianAmericans remains largely in the shadows. In Sitting in Darkness, Hsuan Hsuexamines Twain’s career-long archive of writings about United States relationswith China and the Philippines. Comparing Twain’s early writings about Chineseimmigrants in California and Nevada with his later fictions of slavery andanti-imperialist essays, he demonstrates that Twain’s ideas about race were notlimited to white and black, but profoundly comparative as he carefully craftedassessments of racialization that drew connections between groups, includingAfrican Americans, Chinese immigrants, and a range of colonial populations.Drawing on recent legal scholarship,comparative ethnic studies, and transnational and American studies, Sitting inDarkness engages Twain’s best-known novels such as Tom Sawyer, HuckleberryFinn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, as well as hislesser-known Chinese and trans-Pacific inflected writings, such as theallegorical tale “A Fable of the Yellow Terror” and the yellow face play AhSin. Sitting in Darkness reveals how within intersectional contexts of ChineseExclusion and Jim Crow, these writings registered fluctuating connectionsbetween immigration policy, imperialist ventures, and racism. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Asian Americans in literature. Chinese in literature Asia. Chinese in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110728996 print 9781479880416 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479880416.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479843404 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479843404/original |
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