LEADER 04806nam 2200805 a 450 001 9910453301403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4008-2643-8 010 $a1-282-27137-7 010 $a9786612271373 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400826438 035 $a(CKB)2550000001251128 035 $a(EBL)457857 035 $a(OCoLC)436060044 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000102556 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11117103 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102556 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10060196 035 $a(PQKB)10211463 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457857 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36232 035 $a(DE-B1597)446321 035 $a(OCoLC)979834827 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400826438 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457857 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10328916 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL227137 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001251128 100 $a20040330d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerica's Asia$b[electronic resource] $eracial form and American literature, 1893-1945 /$fColleen Lye 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (355 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-11419-6 311 $a0-691-11418-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [301]-328) and index. 327 $aThe minority which is not one -- A genealogy of the "yellow peril" / Jack London, George Kenna, and the Russo-Japanese war -- Meat versus rice / Frank Norris, Jack London, and the critique of monopoly capitalism -- The end of Asian exclusion? / the specter of "cheap farmers" and alien land law fiction -- A new deal for Asians / John Steinbeck, Carey McWilliams, and the liberalism of Japanese-American internment -- One world / Pearl S. Buck, Edgar Snow, and John Steinbeck on Asian American character. 330 $aWhat explains the perception of Asians both as economic exemplars and as threats? America's Asia explores a discursive tradition that affiliates the East with modern efficiency, in contrast to more familiar primitivist forms of Orientalism. Colleen Lye traces the American stereotype of Asians as a "model minority" or a "yellow peril"--two aspects of what she calls "Asiatic racial form"-- to emergent responses to globalization beginning in California in the late nineteenth century, when industrialization proceeded in tandem with the nation's neocolonial expansion beyond its continental frontier. From Progressive efforts to regulate corporate monopoly to New Deal contentions with the crisis of the Great Depression, a particular racial mode of social redress explains why turn-of-the-century radicals and reformers united around Asian exclusion and why Japanese American internment during World War II was a liberal initiative. In Lye's reconstructed archive of Asian American racialization, literary naturalism and its conventions of representing capitalist abstraction provide key historiographical evidence. Arguing for the profound influence of literature on policymaking, America's Asia examines the relationship between Jack London and leading Progressive George Kennan on U.S.-Japan relations, Frank Norris and AFL leader Samuel Gompers on cheap immigrant labor, Pearl S. Buck and journalist Edgar Snow on the Popular Front in China, and John Steinbeck and left intellectual Carey McWilliams on Japanese American internment. Lye's materialist approach to the construction of race succeeds in locating racialization as part of a wider ideological pattern and in distinguishing between its different, and sometimes opposing, historical effects. 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAsian Americans in literature 606 $aOrientalism$zUnited States 606 $aOrientalism in literature 606 $aRace in literature 607 $aAsia$xForeign public opinion, American 607 $aAsia$xRelations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xRelations$zAsia 607 $aAsia$xIn literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAsian Americans in literature. 615 0$aOrientalism 615 0$aOrientalism in literature. 615 0$aRace in literature. 676 $a810.9/325 700 $aLye$b Colleen$f1967-$01034554 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453301403321 996 $aAmerica's Asia$92453765 997 $aUNINA