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Cold War orientalism [[electronic resource] ] : Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961 / / Christina Klein



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Autore: Klein Christina <1963-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Cold War orientalism [[electronic resource] ] : Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961 / / Christina Klein Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (574 p.)
Disciplina: 950.4/24
Soggetto topico: Orientalism - United States - History - 20th century
Public opinion - United States
Asians in mass media
Cold War - Social aspects - United States
Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century
Soggetto geografico: Asia Foreign public opinion, American
United States Foreign relations 1945-1989
United States Relations Asia
Asia Relations United States
United States Civilization 1945-
Soggetto non controllato: 20th century
america
american history
americans in asia
artists
asia
asian history
cold war era
cold war
cultural historians
cultural history
cultural studies
global power struggles
globalization
historians
intellectuals
international relations
middlebrow
nonfiction
orientalism
orientalist culture
pacific islands
policy makers
political history
political policies
postwar period
public opinion
soviet union
textbooks
us expansion
world history
writers
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-302) index.
Nota di contenuto: Sentimental education : creating a global imaginary of integration -- Reader's digest, Saturday review, and the middlebrow aesthetic of commitment -- How to be an American abroad : James Michener's The voice of Asia, and postwar mass tourism -- Family ties as political obligation : Oscar Hammerstein II, South Pacific, and the discourse of adoption -- Musicals and modernization : The king and I -- Asians in America : Flower drum song and Hawaii.
Sommario/riassunto: In the years following World War II, American writers and artists produced a steady stream of popular stories about Americans living, working, and traveling in Asia and the Pacific. Meanwhile the U.S., competing with the Soviet Union for global power, extended its reach into Asia to an unprecedented degree. This book reveals that these trends-the proliferation of Orientalist culture and the expansion of U.S. power-were linked in complex and surprising ways. While most cultural historians of the Cold War have focused on the culture of containment, Christina Klein reads the postwar period as one of international economic and political integration-a distinct chapter in the process of U.S.-led globalization. Through her analysis of a wide range of texts and cultural phenomena-including Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific and The King and I, James Michener's travel essays and novel Hawaii, and Eisenhower's People-to-People Program-Klein shows how U.S. policy makers, together with middlebrow artists, writers, and intellectuals, created a culture of global integration that represented the growth of U.S. power in Asia as the forging of emotionally satisfying bonds between Americans and Asians. Her book enlarges Edward Said's notion of Orientalism in order to bring to light a cultural narrative about both domestic and international integration that still resonates today.
Titolo autorizzato: Cold War orientalism  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-93625-6
1-283-42257-3
1-59734-548-2
9786613422576
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910777389903321
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