Interracial encounters
Subtitle: reciprocal representations in African American and Asian American literatures, 1896-1937
By: Julia H. Lee
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780814752555; 9780814752562; 9780814752579; 9780814753286
Subjects: African Americans in literature; Asian Americans in literature; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature; African American authors; Asian American authors; History and criticism; American literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The 'negro problem' and the 'yellow peril': early twentieth-century America's views on Blacks and Asians; title: Estrangement on a train: race and narratives of American identity in the marrow of tradition and America through the spectacles of an oriental diplomat; title: The eaton sisters go to Jamaica; title: Quicksand and the racial aesthetics of chinoiserie; title: Nation, narration, and the Afro-Asian encounter in W. E. B. Du Bois' Dark princess; title: And Younghill Kang's East goes west.