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