Interracial encounters : reciprocal representations in African American and Asian American literatures, 1896-1937 / Julia H. Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Julia H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors.

American literature--Asian American authors--History and criticism.

American literature--Asian American authors.

Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.

African Americans in literature.

Asian Americans in literature.

Physical Description:

ix, 219 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2011]

Summary:

Lee (English and Asian American studies, U. of Texas at Austin) explores the diverse ways in which Asian American and African American texts represented racial relations and racial others in an era dominated by a national racial philosophy that presumed, as W.E.B. Du Bois put it, the "high civilization of the whites, the lack of culture among the blacks, the apparent incapacity for self-rule in many non-Europeans, and the stagnation of Asia." Her analysis is guided by the triple goals of grounding the textual representations in the historical circumstances of their production, exposing the ways in which representations of Asian American and African American identities were mutually constituted in relation to each other, examining the ways in which Asian American and African American writers responded to hegemonic notions of American national identity. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

The 'negro problem' and the 'yellow peril': early twentieth-century America's views on Blacks and Asians

Estrangement on a train: race and narratives of American identity in the marrow of tradition and America through the spectacles of an oriental diplomat

The eaton sisters go to Jamaica

Quicksand and the racial aesthetics of chinoiserie

Nation, narration, and the Afro-Asian encounter in W. E. B. Du Bois' Dark princess

And Younghill Kang's East goes west.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814752555

0814752551

9780814752562

081475256X

OCLC:

716070468