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

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"Perhaps the most popular of all canonical American authors, Mark Twain is famous for creating works that satirize American formations of race and empire. While many scholars have explored Twain's work in African Americanist contexts, his writing on Asia and Asian Americans remains largely...

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Main Author: Hsu, Hsuan L., 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, New York : New York University Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Knowledge > Asia.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Criticism and interpretation.
Chinese in literature.
Asian Americans in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Americains d'origine asiatique dans la litterature.
Asia.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "Coolies" and Comparative Racialization in the Global West; 1. "A Witness More Powerful than Himself": Race, Testimony, and Twain's Courtroom Farces; 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: Imperial Romance and Chinese Modernization; 5. Body Counts and Comparative Anti-imperialism; Conclusion: Post-racial Twain?; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C
  • DE; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; About the Author

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