My Account Log in

6 options

Embracing the East : white women and American orientalism / Mari Yoshihara.

ACLS Humanities eBook Available online

View online

EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online

View online

EBSCOhost eBook History Collection - North America Available online

View online

Ebook Central Academic Complete Available online

View online

Ebook Central College Complete Available online

View online

Ebscohost Ebooks University Press Collection (North America) Available online

View online
Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Yoshihara, Mari, 1968- author.
Series:
Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Women, White--Race identity--United States.
Women, White.
Women, White--United States--Ethnic identity.
Orientalism--Social aspects--United States.
Orientalism.
Public opinion--United States.
Public opinion.
East and West--History.
East and West.
Asia--Foreign public opinion, American.
Asia.
Asia--In literature.
United States--Race relations.
United States.
United States--Ethnic relations.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (272 p. ) ill.
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
This study ranges across American literature, art & popular culture to examine how white American women found new forms of expression, and freedom in their construction of Orientalism. This interdisciplinary work draws on diverse materials and approaches, including performance studies & literary analysis.
Contents:
Introduction
PART ONE: Materializing Asia
1. Asia as Spectacle and Commodity: The Feminization of Orientalist Consumption
2. Visualizing Orientalism: Women Artists' "Asian" Prints
PART TWO: Performing Asia
3. "When I Don Your Silken Draperies": New Women's Performances of Asian Heroines
4. Racial Masquerade and Literary Orientalism: Amy Lowell's "Asian" Poetry
5. "Side by Side with These Men I Lie at Night": Sexuality and Agnes Smedley's Radicalism
PART THREE: Authorizing Asia
6. "Popular Expert on China": Authority and Gender in Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth
7. Re-gendering the Enemy: Culture and Gender in Ruth Benedict's The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Conclusion
Notes:
Previously issued in print: 2002.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
0-19-771271-1
0-19-028700-4
1-280-53530-X
1-282-36737-4
9786612367373
9786610535309
0-19-803323-0
1-60256-459-0
OCLC:
475955947
Publisher Number:
2027/heb02736 hdl

The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.

Find

Home Release notes

My Account

Shelf Request an item Bookmarks Fines and fees Settings

Guides

Using the Find catalog Using Articles+ Using your account