East is West and West is East : Gender, Culture, and Interwar Encounters Between Asia and America.

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Between 1919-1938, contact between Asia and America forced a reassessment of the normative boundaries of race, sex, gender, class, home, and nation. Karen Kuo's provocative East Is West and West Is East looks closely at these global shifts to modernity. In her analysis of five forgotten texts-t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kuo, Karen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia PA : Temple University Press, 2012.
Colección:Asian American History & Cultu.
Temas:
Sex > Cross-cultural studies.
Gender identity > Cross-cultural studies.
Sexualité > Études transculturelles.
Identité de genre > Études transculturelles.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
Gender identity
International relations
Sex
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.
United States - General.
Asia > Relations > United States.
United States > Relations > Asia.
Asie > Relations > États-Unis.
Asia
United States
Cross-cultural studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Between 1919-1938, contact between Asia and America forced a reassessment of the normative boundaries of race, sex, gender, class, home, and nation. Karen Kuo's provocative East Is West and West Is East looks closely at these global shifts to modernity. In her analysis of five forgotten texts-the 1930 film East Is West, Frank Capra's 1937 version of Lost Horizon and its 1973 remake, Younghill Kang's novel East Goes West, and Baroness Ishimoto's memoir/manifesto, Facing Both Ways-Kuo elucidates how "Asia" played a role in shaping American gender and racial identities and how Asian authors unde.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (254 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781439905883
1439905886

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