Contributor
Lee, Josephine, 1960- editor.
ImprintCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Descriptionxix, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction: Asian American Literature in Transition, 1850-1930 / Josephine Lee and Julia H. Lee -- Part I. Empire and Resistance -- Reframing Colonial Fantasy and Benevolent Violence: Marriage, Family, and "Global" Racial Consciousness in Edith Eaton's Caribbean Stories / Yu-Fang Cho -- Uncollected: Remapping Edith Maude Eaton/Sui Sin Far / Hsuan L. Hsu and Edlie Wong -- South Asian American Anti-colonial Writings: Critical Reflections on Race, Empire, and Immigration in North America / Seema Sohi -- Challenging Enactments of Power: Remembering the Komagata Maru Incident in Drama and Performance / Nandi Bhatia -- Saum Song Bo on the Statue of Liberty: A Protest against US Chinese Exclusion and French Imperialism / Cynthia Wu -- Island in Between: The Politics of Place in the Poetry of Angel Island / Julia H. Lee -- Part II. Bodies at Work and Play -- Objects of an Orientalist Gaze: Chinese Immigrants in American Silent Film / Philippa Gates -- Labor, Freedom, and Typicality in Chinese Canadian Railroad Fiction / Christopher Lee -- Bret Harte's "Heathen Chinee" in US Literature after Slavery / Caroline H. Yang -- On the Genealogy of Asian American Drama / Sean Metzger -- Decorative Orientalism / Josephine Lee -- Part III. Crossings -- Affect and Form in the Writings of the Eaton Sisters / Dominika Ferens -- Osato-san's Hands: Untimely Tales Gesture to Humanity's Horizons / Andrew Way Leong -- Revolutionary Formalisms / Audrey Wu Clark -- Slave to Love: Racial Form in Early Asian American Miscegenation Plots / Jolie A. Sheffer -- Anna May Wong's Greetings to the World / Yiman Wang.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-324) and index.
Note:"The years between 1850 and 1930 witnessed the first largescale migration of peoples from East Asia and South Asia to North America and the emergence of the US as an imperial power in the Pacific. This period also produced the first instances of Asian North American writing, theater, and film. This exciting collection examines how the many literary and cultural works from this period approached questions of migration, exclusion, and identity. Covering an extensive ranges of topics including anticolonialist writing, the erotics of queer modernist poetry, interracial desire, and the racial gaze in silent film, the book shows the diverse and multiethnic nature of literary and cultural production from a crucial period in modern formations of race as well as literary and cultural aesthetics."-- Provided by publisher.
Note:Recommended in Resources for College Libraries.
