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America and the Long 19th Century Ser.: Sitting in Darkness : Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization by Hsuan L. Hsu (2015, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNew York University Press
ISBN-101479880418
ISBN-139781479880416
eBay Product ID (ePID)203666872
Product Key Features
Number of Pages248 Pages
Publication NameSitting in Darkness : Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
SubjectAmerican / Asian American, American / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
AuthorHsuan L. Hsu
SeriesAmerica and the Long 19th Century Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight18.4 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2014-040534
Reviews"Advanced scholars will be most at home with the level of discussion, but the author clearly relates plentiful historical references to Twain's texts and develops a convincing case for the prevalence of race-related issues in Twain's consciousness."- Choice, "A brilliant book that will add immeasurably to Mark Twain studies, American literary studies, and the field of comparative studies of race and ethnicity. Exciting, well-written, and filled with surprising, unexpected connections, Sitting in Darkness contributes to our understanding of the history of comparative racialization in America while deftly placing literature in legal and social contexts that are truly illuminating."-Shelley Fisher Fishkin,Professor of English and Director of American Studies, Stanford University, A brilliant book that will add immeasurably to Mark Twain studies, American literary studies, and the field of comparative studies of race and ethnicity. Exciting, well-written, and filled with surprising, unexpected connections,Sitting in Darknesscontributes to our understanding of the history of comparative racialization in America while deftly placing literature in legal and social contexts that are truly illuminating.
Series Volume Number7
IllustratedYes
Table Of ContentContents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: "Coolies" and Comparative Racialization 1 in the Global West 1. "A Witness More Powerful than Himself ": Race, Testimony, 27 and Twain's Courtroom Farces 2. Vagrancy and Comparative Racialization in Huckleberry 53 Finn and "Three Vagabonds of Trinidad" 3. "Coolies" and Corporate Personhood in Those 83 Extraordinary Twins 4. A Connecticut Yankee in the Court of Wu Chih Tien: 109 Imperial Romance and Chinese Modernization 5. Body Counts and Comparative Anti-imperialism 139 Conclusion: Post-racial Twain? 167 Notes 171 Works Cited 209 Index 229 About the Author 244
SynopsisPerhaps the most popular of all canonical American authors, Mark Twain is famous for creating works that satirize American formations of race and empire. While many scholars have explored Twain's work in African Americanist contexts, his writing on Asia and Asian Americans remains largely in the shadows. In Sitting in Darkness, Hsuan Hsu examines Twain's career-long archive of writings about United States relations with China and the Philippines. Comparing Twain's early writings about Chinese immigrants in California and Nevada with his later fictions of slavery and anti-imperialist essays, he demonstrates that Twain's ideas about race were not limited to white and black, but profoundly comparative as he carefully crafted assessments of racialization that drew connections between groups, including African Americans, Chinese immigrants, and a range of colonial populations. Drawing on recent legal scholarship, comparative ethnic studies, and transnational and American studies, Sitting in Darkness engages Twain's best-known novels such as Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, as well as his lesser-known Chinese and trans-Pacific inflected writings, such as the allegorical tale "A Fable of the Yellow Terror" and the yellow face play Ah Sin. Sitting in Darkness reveals how within intersectional contexts of Chinese Exclusion and Jim Crow, these writings registered fluctuating connections between immigration policy, imperialist ventures, and racism., Perhaps the most popular of all canonical American authors, Mark Twain is famous for creating works that satirize American formations of race and empire. Drawing on legal scholarship, comparative ethnic studies, and transnational and American studies, this book engages with Twain's best-known novels such as Tom Sawyer, and Huckleberry Finn.
LC Classification NumberPS1342.A7H78 2015
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