The peculiar afterlife of slavery : the Chinese worker and the minstrel form /

The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery explores how anti-black racism was recalibrated and perpetuated through the figure of the non-black Chinese worker in US literature after emancipation. By drawing connections between the form of blackface minstrelsy and the figure of the Chinese worker in Reconstruc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yang, Caroline H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2020
Colección:Asian America.
Temas:
1800-1899
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Foreign workers, Chinese, in literature.
Minstrel shows.
Race in literature.
Racism in literature.
Minstrels in literature.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Ménestrels dans la littérature.
Race dans la littérature.
Racisme dans la littérature.
Spectacles de ménestrels (Théâtre américain)
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American.
American literature
Foreign workers, Chinese, in literature
Literature
Minstrels in literature
Race in literature
Racism in literature
West (U.S.) > In literature.
West United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the Chinese question in the early afterlife of slavery
  • "Earliest pioneers" of white literature of the West during Reconstruction. The "heathen Chinee" and Topsy in Bret Harte's narratives of the West
  • Mark Twain's Chinese characters and the fungibility of blackness
  • Ambrose Bierce's critique of blackface minstrelsy and anti-Chinese racism
  • "Pioneers" of Asian American and African American literatures at the turn of the twentieth century. Representations of gender and slavery in Sui Sin Far's early fictions
  • Reading the minstrel tradition and U.S. empire through Charles Chesnutt's The marrow of tradition

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