Sitting in Darkness : Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization

Sitting in Darkness Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hsu, Hsuan L., author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press [2015]
Colección:America and the long 19th century.
Materias:
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Knowledge > Asia.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Criticism and interpretation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
Chinese in literature.
Asian Americans in literature.
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009817330106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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