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

Sommario

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

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Karen Kuo, Karen J Kuo, Karen J. Kuo
• Editore: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 02.11.2012
• EAN: 9781439905876
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-0587-6
• Pagine: 216
• Dimensioni: 141 mm x 215 mm x 16 mm
• Peso: 308 g
• Serie: Asian American History and Culture Series; Asian American History & Cultu; Asian American History & Cultu
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; 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