Hsuan L Hsu

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Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative RacializationHardcover, 20 February 2015

Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization
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Part of Series
America and the Long 19th Century
Print Length
248 pages
Language
English
Publisher
New York University Press
Date Published
20 Feb 2015
ISBN-10
1479880418
ISBN-13
9781479880416

Description

Perhaps the most popular of all canonical
American authors, Mark Twain is famous for creating works that satirize
American formations of race and empire. While many scholars have explored
Twain's work in African Americanist contexts, his writing on Asia and Asian
Americans remains largely in the shadows. In Sitting in Darkness, Hsuan Hsu
examines Twain's career-long archive of writings about United States relations
with China and the Philippines. Comparing Twain's early writings about Chinese
immigrants in California and Nevada with his later fictions of slavery and
anti-imperialist essays, he demonstrates that Twain's ideas about race were not
limited to white and black, but profoundly comparative as he carefully crafted
assessments of racialization that drew connections between groups, including
African Americans, Chinese immigrants, and a range of colonial populations.

Drawing on recent legal scholarship,
comparative ethnic studies, and transnational and American studies, Sitting in
Darkness engages Twain's best-known novels such as Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry
Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, as well as his
lesser-known Chinese and trans-Pacific inflected writings, such as the
allegorical tale "A Fable of the Yellow Terror" and the yellow face play Ah
Sin. Sitting in Darkness reveals how within intersectional contexts of Chinese
Exclusion and Jim Crow, these writings registered fluctuating connections
between immigration policy, imperialist ventures, and racism.

Product Details

Author:
Hsuan L Hsu
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
20 February 2015
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.24 x 1.91 cm
ISBN-10:
1479880418
ISBN-13:
9781479880416
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
248
Weight:
517.09 gm

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