White Ghosts, Yellow Peril
Author: Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Publisher:
Published: 2014
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ISBN-13: 9781927322826
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Visions of Whiteness in Selected Works of Asian American Literature
Author: Klara Szmańko
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-03-07
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1476620431
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor Toni Morrison stressed the need to analyze race in American literature by white authors by shifting focus "from the racial object to the racial subject." Representations of whiteness in certain works by Asian American authors reveal what happens when the visual dynamics of ethnography are reversed, and those persons often considered as objects--Asian Americans, other minorities--are allowed to see and judge those who so often objectify them. This study emphasizes social power structures, the aesthetics of whiteness and transformational identity politics. Works examined include Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior (1976) and China Men (1980), and The Fifth Book of Peace (2003); Leonard Chang's The Fruit 'N Food (1996); and, Joy Kogawa's Obasan (1981).
Beyond These Shores
Author: Fairlie Chappuis
Publisher: Bridget Williams Books
Published: 2020-08-10
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1988545609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years, more people are calling for an independent, values-based foreign policy – and parties of all political stripes are looking for new ideas to achieve that. Edited by Nina Hall, this book brings together a diverse group of New Zealanders to outline their visions for New Zealand’s role in the world. It sparks a conversation about how we can exercise leadership and influence in the international arena.
Yellow Peril!
Author: John Kuo Wei Tchen
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2014-02-11
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1781681236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom invading hordes to enemy agents, a great fear haunts the West! The “yellow peril” is one of the oldest and most pervasive racist ideas in Western culture—dating back to the birth of European colonialism during the Enlightenment. Yet while Fu Manchu looks almost quaint today, the prejudices that gave him life persist in modern culture. Yellow Peril! is the first comprehensive repository of anti-Asian images and writing, and it surveys the extent of this iniquitous form of paranoia. Written by two dedicated scholars and replete with paintings, photographs, and images drawn from pulp novels, posters, comics, theatrical productions, movies, propagandistic and pseudo-scholarly literature, and a varied world of pop culture ephemera, this is both a unique and fascinating archive and a modern analysis of this crucial historical formation.
White Ghosts, Yellow Peril
Author: Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781877578656
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhite Ghosts, Yellow Peril is the first book ever to explore all sides of the relationship between China and New Zealand and their peoples during the seven or so generations after they initially came into contact. The Qing Empire and its successor states from 1790 to 1950 were vast, complex and torn by conflict. New Zealand, meanwhile, grew into a small, prosperous, orderly province of Europe. Not until now has anyone told the story of the links and tensions between the two countries during those years so broadly and so thoroughly. The reader keen to know about this relationship will find in this book a highly readable portrait of the lives, thoughts and feelings of Chinese who came to New Zealand and New Zealanders who went to China, along with a scholarly but stimulating discussion of race relations, government, diplomacy, war, literature and the arts.
The Ghosts Within
Author: Janna Odabas
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Published: 2018-11-30
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 3839444497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ghost as a literary figure has been interpreted multiple times: spiritually, psychoanalytically, sociologically, or allegorically. Following these approaches, Janna Odabas understands ghosts in Asian American literature as self-reflexive figures. With identity politics at the core of the ghost concept, Odabas emphasizes how ghosts critically renegotiate the notion of 'Asian America' as heterogeneous and transnational and resist interpretation through a morally or politically preconceived approach to Asian American literature. Responding to the tensions of the scholarly field, Odabas argues that the literary works under scrutiny openly play with and rethink conceptions of ghosts as mere exotic, ethnic ornamentation.
Margins and Mainstreams
Author: Gary Y. Okihiro
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2014-04-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0295805366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this classic book on the meaning of multiculturalism in larger American society, Gary Okihiro explores the significance of Asian American experiences from the perspectives of historical consciousness, race, gender, class, and culture. While exploring anew the meanings of Asian American social history, Okihiro argues that the core values and ideals of the nation emanate today not from the so-called mainstream but from the margins, from among Asian and African Americans, Latinos and American Indians, women, and the gay and lesbian community. Those groups in their struggles for equality, have helped to preserve and advance the founders’ ideals and have made America a more democratic place for all.
Yellow peril
Author: Patrizia Barrera
Publisher: Tektime
Published: 2021-01-27
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 8835418119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo tragedies, the Chinese Massacre of 1871 and Child Prostitution, sum up the troubled -and toxic- relationship between the United States of America and China. A spirited, witty book that exposes many hidden, hideous truths. Translator: Magda Pala PUBLISHER: TEKTIME
China, New Zealand, and the Complexities of Globalization
Author: Tim Beal
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-12-12
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1137516909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book examines the expansion of investment and trade between China and New Zealand, and its changing composition within the political framework, especially the 2008 Free Trade Agreement. Particular attention is paid to China’s volatile agrifood market, where New Zealand dairy products play an important role for both countries. The New Zealand-China economic relationship – asymmetrical and complementary, but with increasing competition from domestic production – is a case study of the complexities of globalization and the interplay of economic imperatives, political pressures and cultural factors. China is now New Zealand’s main economic partner and a major source of migrants, tourists and students. This proposed study on how New Zealand and China manage their grave dissimilarities and disparities in growing, ever close economic ties will be of interest to academics, policy analysts, economic/trade decision makers, and business practitioners.
On Whiteness
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-05-18
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 1848881053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays cover an astonishing range of subject matter, from mental health and plastic surgery to literature, music, political philosophy, performance, popular culture and history. They interrogate the dominance of whiteness, exposing the underpinnings of white privilege and considering its global consequences.
