East is West and West is East - Gender, Culture, and Interwar Encounters Between Asia and America

How race, gender, and sexuality were re-imagined in the interwar encounters of Asians and Americans

List of contents

Introduction; One: 'How Yellow and White Women Are Sold: Controlling Chinese and White Female Sexuality and the Making of US Domesticity in East is West'; Two: 'Masculine Racial Formations in Younghill Kang's East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee'; Three: 'Utopias Lost and Found: Lost Horizon and the Revitalization of American Masculinity, and the National Imaginary'; Four: 'Envisioning Feminism Across the Pacific-Japanese and American Feminism and the Limits of Race in Facing Two Ways'; Conclusion Bibliography

About the author

Karen Kuo is an Assistant Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University.

Summary

How race, gender, and sexuality were re-imagined in the interwar encounters of Asians and Americans

Product details

• Authors: Karen Kuo, Karen J Kuo, Karen J. Kuo
• Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2012
• EAN: 9781439905876
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-0587-6
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 215 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 308 g
• Series: Asian American History and Culture Series; Asian American History & Cultu; Asian American History & Cultu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Amerika, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Gender Studies: Gruppen, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Literature - Classics / Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American