America's Asia : racial form and American literature, 1893-1945

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    • Lye, Colleen

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America's Asia : racial form and American literature, 1893-1945

Colleen Lye

Princeton University Press, c2005

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-328) and index

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ISBN 9780691114187

内容説明

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. From Progressive efforts to regulate corporate monopoly to New Deal contentions with the crisis of the Great Depression, a particular racial mode of social redress explains why turn-of-the-century radicals and reformers united around Asian exclusion and why Japanese American internment during World War II was a liberal initiative.In Lye's reconstructed archive of Asian American racialization, literary naturalism and its conventions of representing capitalist abstraction provide key historiographical evidence. Arguing for the profound influence of literature on policymaking, "America's Asia" examines the relationship between Jack London and leading Progressive George Kennan on U.S.-Japan relations, Frank Norris and AFL leader Samuel Gompers on cheap immigrant labor, Pearl S. Buck and journalist Edgar Snow on the Popular Front in China, and John Steinbeck and left intellectual Carey McWilliams on Japanese American internment. Lye's materialist approach to the construction of race succeeds in locating racialization as part of a wider ideological pattern and in distinguishing between its different, and sometimes opposing, historical effects.

目次

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Minority Which Is Not One 1 Chapter One: A Genealogy of the "Yellow Peril" 12 Jack London, George Kennan, and the Russo-Japanese War Chapter Two: Meat versus Rice 47 Frank Norris, Jack London, and the Critique of Monopoly Capitalism Chapter Three: The End of Asian Exclusion? 96 The Specter of "Cheap Farmers" and Alien Land Law Fiction Chapter Four: A New Deal for Asians 141 John Steinbeck, Carey McWilliams, and the Liberalism of Japanese-American Internment Chapter Five: One World 204 Pearl S. Buck, Edgar Snow, and John Steinbeck on Asian American Character Notes 255 Works Cited 301 Index 329
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780691114194

内容説明

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. From Progressive efforts to regulate corporate monopoly to New Deal contentions with the crisis of the Great Depression, a particular racial mode of social redress explains why turn-of-the-century radicals and reformers united around Asian exclusion and why Japanese American internment during World War II was a liberal initiative. In Lye's reconstructed archive of Asian American racialization, literary naturalism and its conventions of representing capitalist abstraction provide key historiographical evidence. Arguing for the profound influence of literature on policymaking, America's Asia examines the relationship between Jack London and leading Progressive George Kennan on U.S.-Japan relations, Frank Norris and AFL leader Samuel Gompers on cheap immigrant labor, Pearl S. Buck and journalist Edgar Snow on the Popular Front in China, and John Steinbeck and left intellectual Carey McWilliams on Japanese American internment. Lye's materialist approach to the construction of race succeeds in locating racialization as part of a wider ideological pattern and in distinguishing between its different, and sometimes opposing, historical effects.

目次

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The Minority Which Is Not One 1 Chapter One: A Genealogy of the "Yellow Peril" 12 Jack London, George Kennan, and the Russo-Japanese War Chapter Two: Meat versus Rice 47 Frank Norris, Jack London, and the Critique of Monopoly Capitalism Chapter Three: The End of Asian Exclusion? 96 The Specter of "Cheap Farmers" and Alien Land Law Fiction Chapter Four: A New Deal for Asians 141 John Steinbeck, Carey McWilliams, and the Liberalism of Japanese-American Internment Chapter Five: One World 204 Pearl S. Buck, Edgar Snow, and John Steinbeck on Asian American Character Notes 255 Works Cited 301 Index 329

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