The Asian writings of Jack London : essays, letters, newspaper dispatches, and short fiction

著者

• London, Jack
• Metraux, Daniel Alfred

書誌事項

The Asian writings of Jack London : essays, letters, newspaper dispatches, and short fiction

by Jack London ; with an introductory analysis by Daniel A. Métraux ; with a foreword by Wilton S. Dillon

Edwin Mellen Press, c2009

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Examines American writer Jack London's journalistic and literary contributions about Asia, his insights into Asian ethnic and political complexities, and his vision for pan-Asian/American cooperation. This book includes an anthology of London's major writings on Asia.

目次

• Foreword by Wilton S. Dillon, PhD
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Part I: Analysis of London's Writing on Asia
• 1. Background to London's Career and Focus on Asia
• 2. Jack London's Forgotten Role as an Influential Observer of Early Modern Asia
• 3. Jack London's First Encounter with Japan: The Voyage of the Sophie Sutherland and his First Asian Writing
• 4. Jack London Reporting From Korea and Manchuria
• 5. Jack London and the Yellow Peril
• 6. Jack London's Plea for Pan-Pacific Understanding: "The Language of the Tribe"
• Epilogue: Jack London's Mixed Message
• Part Two: Jack London's Writing on Asia
• The Bonin Islands: An Incident of the Sealing Fleet
• Short Fiction
• Sakaicho, Hona Asi and Hakadaki
• A Night's Swim in Yedo Bay
• O Haru
• The Unparalleled Invasion
• The Chinago
• Letters and Newspaper Dispatches from Japan, Korea and
• Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War (1904)
• Three essays on the Future of Asia
• The Yellow Peril
• If Japan Awakens China
• The Language of the Tribe
• Bibliography
• Index.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB01038280
• ISBN:
  • 9780773438125
• LCCN: 2009044360
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Lewiston, NY
• ページ数/冊数: ix, 322 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PS3523.O46
  • DC22 : 813/.52