05170nam 2200841 a 450 991045034840332120211006012632.00-19-028700-41-280-53530-X1-282-36737-4978661236737397866105353090-19-803323-01-60256-459-0(CKB)1000000000029041(StDuBDS)AH24085615(SSID)ssj0000084110(PQKBManifestationID)11121125(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084110(PQKBWorkID)10185309(PQKB)10290086(MiAaPQ)EBC241282(MiAaPQ)EBC5121586(Au-PeEL)EBL241282(CaPaEBR)ebr10084836(CaONFJC)MIL236737(OCoLC)475955947(MiAaPQ)EBC2012806(Au-PeEL)EBL2012806(Au-PeEL)EBL5121586(CaONFJC)MIL53530(OCoLC)1027200567(EXLCZ)99100000000002904120020201d2003 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrEmbracing the East[electronic resource] white women and American orientalism /Mari YoshiharaOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20031 online resource (272 p. )illBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-19-514533-X 0-19-514534-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-235) and index.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 --ConclusionThis 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.As exemplified by Madame Butterfly, East-West relations have often been expressed as the relations between the masculine, dominant West and the feminine, submissive East. Yet, this binary model does not account for the important role of white women in the construction of Orientalism. Mari Yoshihara's study examines a wide range of white women who were attracted to Japan and China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and shows how, through their engagement with Asia, these women found new forms of expression, power, and freedom that were often denied to them in other realms of their lives in America. She demonstrates how white women's attraction to Asia shaped and was shaped by a complex mix of exoticism for the foreign, admiration for the refined, desire for power and control, and love and compassion for the people of Asia. Through concrete historical narratives and careful textual analysis, she examines the ideological context for America's changing discourse about Asia and interrogates the power and appeal--as well as the problems and limitations--of American Orientalism for white women's explorations of their identities. Combining the analysis of race and gender in the United States and the study of U.S.-Asian relations, Yoshihara's work represents the transnational direction of scholarship in American Studies and U.S. history. In addition, this interdisciplinary work brings together diverse materials and approaches, including cultural history, material culture, visual arts, performance studies, and literary analysis.Women, WhiteRace identityUnited StatesWomen, WhiteUnited StatesEthnic identityOrientalismSocial aspectsUnited StatesPublic opinionUnited StatesEast and WestHistoryAsiaForeign public opinion, AmericanAsiaIn literatureUnited StatesRace relationsUnited StatesEthnic relationsElectronic books.Women, WhiteRace identityWomen, WhiteEthnic identity.OrientalismSocial aspectsPublic opinionEast and WestHistory.305.4/0973Yoshihara Mari1968-936411MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450348403321Embracing the East2366610UNINA