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Author Lee, Julia H.

Title Interracial encounters [electronic resource] : reciprocal representations in African American and Asian American literatures, 1896-1937 / Julia H. Lee.

Imprint New York : New York University Press, c2011.

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Description ix, 219 p.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The 'negro problem' and the 'yellow peril': early twentieth-century America's views on Blacks and Asians -- Estrangement on a train: race and narratives of American identity in the marrow of tradition and America through the spectacles of an oriental diplomat -- The eaton sisters go to Jamaica -- Quicksand and the racial aesthetics of chinoiserie -- Nation, narration, and the Afro-Asian encounter in W. E. B. Du Bois' Dark princess -- And Younghill Kang's East goes west.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Asian Americans in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780814752555 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780814752562 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780814753286 (e-book)
9780814752579 (e-book)

 
    
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