Embracing the East [[electronic resource] ] : white women and American orientalism / / Mari Yoshihara
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| Autore: |
Yoshihara Mari <1968->
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| Titolo: |
Embracing the East [[electronic resource] ] : white women and American orientalism / / Mari Yoshihara
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| 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 |
| 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.: | 996247922103316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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