Interracial encounters : reciprocal representations in African American and Asian American literatures, 1896-1937 / Julia H. Lee

Author:: Lee, Julia H.
Published:: New York : New York University Press, [2011]
Copyright Date:: ©2011
Physical Description:: ix, 219 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents:

The 'negro problem' and the 'yellow peril': early twentieth-century America's views on Blacks and Asians -- Estrangement on a train: race and narratives of American identity in the marrow of tradition and America through the spectacles of an oriental diplomat -- The eaton sisters go to Jamaica -- Quicksand and the racial aesthetics of chinoiserie -- Nation, narration, and the Afro-Asian encounter in W. E. B. Du Bois' Dark princess -- And Younghill Kang's East goes west.

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ISBN:

9780814752555 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0814752551 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780814752562 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
081475256X (pbk. : acid-free paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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UP-PAT copy: Purchased with funds from the Hastings Libraries Endowment; 2011.

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The Hastings Libraries Endowment

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