Embracing the East White Women and American Orientalism

Name: Embracing the East White Women and American Orientalism
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ISBN: 9780195145342

ISBN-10: 0195145348

ISBN-13: 9780195145342

Edition: 2002

Authors: Mari Yoshihara

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Description:

This study ranges across American literature, art & popular culture to examine how white American women found new forms of expression, and freedom in their construction of Orientalism. This interdisciplinary work draws on diverse materials and approaches, including performance studies & literary analysis.

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/12/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 8.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgements


A Note on Japanese and Chinese Names


Embracing the East


Introduction



Materializing Asia



Feminization of Orientalist Consumption



Women Artists' ""asian"" Prints



Performing Asia



New Women's Performances of Asian Heroines



Amy Lowell's ""asian"" Poetry



Sexuality and Agnes Smedley's Radicalism



Authorizing Asia



Authority and Gender in Pearl S. Buck's the Good Earth



Culture and Gender in Ruth Benedict's the Chrysanthemum and the Sword


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index