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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 sh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
New York University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | America and the Long 19th Century ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
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