East Is West and West Is East Gender, Culture, and Interwar Encounters Between Asia and America

Name: East Is West and West Is East Gender, Culture, and Interwar Encounters Between Asia and America
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ISBN: 9781439905876

ISBN-10: 1439905878

ISBN-13: 9781439905876

Edition: 2012

Authors: Karen Kuo

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During the interwar years, contact between Asia and America forced a reassessment of the normative boundaries of race, sex, gender, class, home, and nation. Karen Kuo's provocative East Is West and West Is East looks closely at these global shifts to modernity. In her analysis of five forgotten texts - the 1930 film East Is West , Frank Capra's 1937 version of Lost Horizon and its 1973 remake; Younghill Kang's novel East Goes West ; and Baroness Ishimoto's memoir/manifesto, Facing Both Ways - Kuo elucidates how 'Asia' played a role in shaping American gender and racial identities and how Asian authors understood modern America and its social, political, and cultural influence on Asia. Kuo…

Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 11/2/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



How Yellow and White Women Are Sold: Controlling Chinese and White Female Sexuality and the Making of US Domesticity in East Is West



Masculine Racial Formations in Younghill Kang's East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee



Utopias Lost and Found: Lost Horizon and the Revitalization of American Masculinity



Envisioning Feminism across the Pacific: Japanese and American Feminism and the Limits of Race in Facing Two Ways


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index