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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450348403321

Autore

Yoshihara Mari <1968->

Titolo

Embracing the East [[electronic resource] ] : white women and American orientalism / / Mari Yoshihara

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003

ISBN

0-19-028700-4

1-280-53530-X

1-282-36737-4

9786612367373

9786610535309

0-19-803323-0

1-60256-459-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

305.4/0973

Soggetti

Women, White - Race identity - United States

Women, White - United States - Ethnic identity

Orientalism - Social aspects - United States

Public opinion - United States

East and West - History

Electronic books.

Asia Foreign public opinion, American

Asia In literature

United States Race relations

United States Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-235) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- PART ONE: Materializing Asia -- 1. Asia as Spectacle and Commodity: The Feminization of Orientalist Consumption -- 2. Visualizing Orientalism: Women Artists' "Asian" Prints -- PART TWO: Performing Asia -- 3. "When I Don Your Silken Draperies": New Women's Performances of Asian Heroines -- 4. Racial Masquerade and Literary Orientalism: Amy Lowell's "Asian" Poetry -- 5. "Side by Side



with These Men I Lie at Night": Sexuality and Agnes Smedley's Radicalism -- PART THREE: Authorizing Asia -- 6. "Popular Expert on China": Authority and Gender in Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth -- 7. Re-gendering the Enemy: Culture and Gender in Ruth Benedict's The Chrysanthemum and the Sword -- Conclusion

Sommario/riassunto

This study ranges across American literature, art & popular culture to examine how white American women found new forms of expression, and freedom in their construction of Orientalism. This interdisciplinary work draws on diverse materials and approaches, including performance studies & literary analysis.