Xiang Tonal Intelligence

The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-231-55191-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Literature Now

Sunny Xiang offers a new way of understanding the American cold war in Asia by tracing aesthetic manifestations of “Oriental inscrutability” across a wide range of texts. She puts interrogation reports, policy memos, and field notes into conversation with novels, poems, documentaries, and mixed media work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Xiang, Sunny

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Hardly War, Partly History
1. The Tone of Intelligence: Unconventional Warfare and Its Archives
2. The Tone of Rumors: Imperial Tours and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Critique of Japanese Exceptionalism
3. The Tone of the Times: Historical Temperament in the Works of Induk Pahk and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
4. The Tone of Documentation: Combating the Brainwashee’s Drone in Korean War “Testimonies” and “Confessions”
5. The Tone of Intimacy: Imperial Brotherhood and Trinh T. Minh-ha’s Cinematic Interviews
Coda—the Tone of Commons: Solidarities Without a Solid
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sunny Xiang is assistant professor of English at Yale University.