Keywords:
Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
Online-Ressource (257 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781479880416
Series Statement:
America and the Long 19th Century Series v.7
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1911630
DDC:
818/.409
Language:
English
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "Coolies" and Comparative Racialization in the Global West; 1. "A Witness More Powerful than Himself": Race, Testimony, and Twain's Courtroom Farces; 2. Vagrancy and Comparative Racialization in Huckleberry Finn and "Three Vagabonds of Trinidad"; 3. "Coolies" and Corporate Personhood in Those Extraordinary Twins; 4. A Connecticut Yankee in the Court of Wu Chih Tien: Imperial Romance and Chinese Modernization; 5. Body Counts and Comparative Anti-imperialism; Conclusion: Post-racial Twain?; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C
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DE; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; About the Author
