Mules and dragons : popular culture images in the selected writings of African-American and Chinese-American women writers
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Mules and dragons : popular culture images in the selected writings of African-American and Chinese-American women writers
（Contributions in women's studies, no. 136）
Greenwood Press, 1993
Available at 31 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-153) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Young compares and contrasts the histories of African-American and Chinese-American women, then analyzes each group's response to the stereotyped images that have become a part of American cultural history. Her vehicle for this study is fiction from writers as diverse as James Fenimore Cooper, William Wells Brown, Ambrose Bierce, and Frank Chin, and from Euro-American, African-American, and Chinese-American writers who created the dominant stereotypes. Young examines the response to these stereotypes in the writings of key African and Chinese-American women writers such as Linda Brent, Frances Harper, Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Sui Sin Far, Chang Hua, and Amy Tan.
Table of Contents
Preface "John Chinaman" as "Sambo" Mammies, Mulattas, Sluts, and Sapphires The Female Response: Harriet E. Wilson to Alice Walker Dragon Ladies, Susie Wongs, and Passive Dolls Sui Sin Far to Amy Tan African-Americans and Chinese-Americans Selected Bibliography Index
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