Interracial Encounters

Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937

Autor: Julia Lee

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Why do black characters appear so frequently in Asian American literary works and Asian characters a...

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Autor

Julia Lee

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2011

Stránek

228

EAN

9780814752555

ISBN

0814752551

Enbook ID

04931893

Vydavatel

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Hmotnost

430

Rozměry

153 x 229 x 20

Kompletní popis

Why do black characters appear so frequently in Asian American literary works and Asian characters appear in African American literary works in the early twentieth century? Interracial Encounters attempts to answer this rather straightforward literary question, arguing that scenes depicting Black-Asian interactions, relationships, and conflicts capture the constitution of African American and Asian American identities as each group struggled to negotiate the racially exclusionary nature of American identity. In this nuanced study, Julia H. Lee argues that the diversity and ambiguity that characterize these textual moments radically undermine the popular notion that the history of Afro-Asian relations can be reduced to a monolithic, media-friendly narrative, whether of cooperation or antagonism. Drawing on works by Charles Chesnutt, Wu Tingfang, Edith and Winnifred Eaton, Nella Larsen, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Younghill Kang, Interracial Encounters foregrounds how these reciprocal representations emerged from the nation's pervasive pairing of the figure of the "Negro" and the "Asiatic" in oppositional, overlapping, or analogous relationships within a wide variety of popular, scientific, legal, and cultural discourses. Historicizing these interracial encounters within a national and global context highlights how multiple racial groups shaped the narrative of race and national identity in the early twentieth century, as well as how early twentieth century American literature emerged from that multiracial political context.

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