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



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Autore: Yoshihara Mari <1968-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Embracing the East [[electronic resource] ] : white women and American orientalism / / Mari Yoshihara Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p. ) : ill
Disciplina: 305.4/0973
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: Asia Foreign public opinion, American
Asia In literature
United States Race relations
United States Ethnic relations
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Embracing the East  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-028700-4
1-280-53530-X
1-282-36737-4
9786612367373
9786610535309
0-19-803323-0
1-60256-459-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910450348403321
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