Asian American literature in transition, 1850-1930

Asian American literature in transition, 1850-1930 /

"The years between 1850 and 1930 witnessed the first largescale migration of peoples from East Asia and South Asia to North America and the emergence of the US as an imperial power in the Pacific. This period also produced the first instances of Asian North American writing, theater, and film....

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Other Authors: Lee, Josephine, 1960- (Editor), Lee, Julia H. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Series:Asian American Literature in Transition ; 1.
Subjects:
American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism.
Asian Americans in literature.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs américains d'origine asiatique > Histoire et critique.
Américains d'origine asiatique dans la littérature.
American literature > Asian American authors.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs d'origine asiatique > 19e siècle.
Littérature américaine > Auteurs d'origine asiatique > 20e siècle.
Américains d'origine asiatique > Dans la littérature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Asian American literature in transition, 1850-1930 / Josephine Lee and Julia H. Lee
  • Part 1. Empire and Resistance
  • Reframing colonial fantasy and benevolent violence: marriage, family, and "global" racial consciousness in Edith Eaton's caribbean stories / Yu-Fang Cho
  • Uncollected: remapping Edith Maude Eaton/Sui Sin Far / Hsuan L. Hsu and Edlie Wong
  • South Asian American anti-colonial writings: critical reflections on race, empire, and immigration in North America / Seema Sohi
  • Challenging enactments of power: remembering the Komagata Maru incident in drama and performance / Nandi Bhatia
  • Saum Song Bo on the Statue of Liberty: a protest against US Chinese exclusion and French imperialism / Cynthia Wu
  • Island in between: the politics of place in the poetry of Angel Island / Julia H. Lee
  • Part II. Bodies at work and play
  • Objects of an Orientalist gaze: Chinese immigrants in American silent film / Philippa Gates
  • Labor, freedom, and typicality in Chinese Canadian railroad fiction / Christopher Lee
  • Bret Harte's "Heathen Chinee" in US literature after slavery / Caroline H. Yang
  • On the genealogy of Asian American drama / Sean Metzger
  • Decorative Orientalism / Josephine Lee
  • Part III. Crossings
  • Affect and form in the writings of the Eaton sisters / Dominika Ferens
  • Osato-san's Hands: untimely tales gesture to humanity's horizons / Andrew Way Leong
  • Revolutionary formalisms / Audrey Wu Clark
  • Slave to love: racial form in early Asian American miscegenation plots / Jolie A. Sheffer
  • Anna May Wong's greetings to the world / Yiman Wang.

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