| Description |
1 online resource (x, 342 pages) |
| Contents |
The 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 |
| Summary |
What 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-328) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Asian Americans in literature.
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Orientalism in literature.
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Orientalism -- United States.
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Race in literature.
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Asia -- Foreign public opinion, American
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Asia -- In literature.
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Asia -- Relations -- United States.
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United States -- Relations -- Asia.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0691114188 (acid-free paper) |
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0691114196 (paperback; acid-free paper) |
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1400826438 (electronic bk.) |
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9780691114187 (acid-free paper) |
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9780691114194 (paperback; acid-free paper) |
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9781400826438 (electronic bk.) |
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