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Author Lye, Colleen, 1967-

Title America's Asia : racial form and American literature, 1893-1945 / Colleen Lye.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (x, 342 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-328) and index.
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.
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Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Asia -- Foreign public opinion, American.
Asia -- Relations -- United States.
United States -- Relations -- Asia.
Asian Americans in literature.
Orientalism -- United States.
Orientalism in literature.
Asia -- In literature.
Race in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- Asian American.
American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
Asian Americans in literature. (OCoLC)fst00818675
International relations. (OCoLC)fst00977053
Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
Orientalism. (OCoLC)fst01048139
Orientalism in literature. (OCoLC)fst01048143
Public opinion, American. (OCoLC)fst01354087
Race in literature. (OCoLC)fst01086506
Asia. (OCoLC)fst01240495
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Amerikaans.
Letterkunde.
Rassenvraagstuk.
Aziaten.
Representatie (algemeen)
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form: Print version: Lye, Colleen, 1967- America's Asia. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2005 0691114188 9780691114187 (DLC) 2004042066 (OCoLC)54931601
ISBN 9781400826438 (electronic bk.)
1400826438 (electronic bk.)
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