Embracing the East: White Women and American OrientalismOxford University Press, 12/12/2002 - 256 páginas As exemplified by Madame Butterfly, East-West relations have often been expressed as the relations between the masculine, dominant West and the feminine, submissive East. Yet, this binary model does not account for the important role of white women in the construction of Orientalism. Mari Yoshihara's study examines a wide range of white women who were attracted to Japan and China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and shows how, through their engagement with Asia, these women found new forms of expression, power, and freedom that were often denied to them in other realms of their lives in America. She demonstrates how white women's attraction to Asia shaped and was shaped by a complex mix of exoticism for the foreign, admiration for the refined, desire for power and control, and love and compassion for the people of Asia. Through concrete historical narratives and careful textual analysis, she examines the ideological context for America's changing discourse about Asia and interrogates the power and appeal--as well as the problems and limitations--of American Orientalism for white women's explorations of their identities. Combining the analysis of race and gender in the United States and the study of U.S.-Asian relations, Yoshihara's work represents the transnational direction of scholarship in American Studies and U.S. history. In addition, this interdisciplinary work brings together diverse materials and approaches, including cultural history, material culture, visual arts, performance studies, and literary analysis. Embracing the East was the winner of the 2003 Hiroshi Shimizu Award of the Japanese Association for American Studies (best book in American Studies by a junior member of the association). |
Índice
Introduction | 3 |
Asia as Spectacle and Commodity Feminization of Orientalist Consumption | 15 |
Visualizing Orientalism Women Artists Asian Prints | 45 |
When I Don Your Silken Draperies New Womens Performances of Asian Heroines | 77 |
Racial Masquerade and Literary Orientalism Amy Lowells Asian Poetry | 101 |
Side by Side with These Men I Lie at Night Sexuality and Agnes Smedleys Radicalism | 127 |
Popular Expert on China Authority and Gender in Pearl S Bucks The Good Earth | 149 |
Regendering the Enemy Culture and Gender in Ruth Benedicts The Chrysanthemum and the Sword | 171 |
Conclusion | 191 |
Notes | 199 |
Bibliography | 221 |
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Apparitions of Asia: Modernist Form and Asian American Poetics Josephine Park Pré-visualização limitada - 2008 |