Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization Contributor(s): Hsu, Hsuan L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1479815101 ISBN-13: 9781479815104 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - Asian American - Social Science | Customs & Traditions |
Dewey: 818.409 |
LCCN: 2014040534 |
Series: America and the Long 19th Century |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 7.01" W x 8.79" (0.94 lbs) 248 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Perhaps the most popular of all canonical Drawing on recent legal scholarship, comparative ethnic studies, and transnational and American studies, Sitting in Darkness engages Twain's best-known novels such as Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, as well as his lesser-known Chinese and trans-Pacific inflected writings, such as the allegorical tale "A Fable of the Yellow Terror" and the yellow face play Ah Sin. Sitting in Darkness reveals how within intersectional contexts of Chinese Exclusion and Jim Crow, these writings registered fluctuating connections between immigration policy, imperialist ventures, and racism. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hsu, Hsuan L.: - Hsuan L. Hsu is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis and author of Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. |