Cho Uncoupling American Empire

Cultural Politics of Deviance and Unequal Difference, 1890-1910
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4900-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Multiethnic Literatures

A cultural studies consideration of marriage and those considered “deviant” in the nineteenth-century American imagination.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cho, Yu-Fang

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Unfree Labor and the Geopolitics of Marriage and Sexuality

Part I: Uncertain Domesticity

1. Sexual Deviance and Racial Excess

2. Orientalism, Black Domesticity, and Imperial Ambivalence

Part II: Trans-Pacific Archives Unbound

3. “Yellow Slavery” and Sensational Violence

4. Domesticating the Aliens: Sentimental Benevolence

5. Domesticity, Race, and Colonial Modernity

Postscript: The Obama Paradox
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Yu-Fang Cho is Associate Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and a founding member of the Asian/Asian American Studies Program at Miami University of Ohio.