{"product_id":"sitting-in-darkness-mark-twains-asia-and-comparative-racialization-paperback-softback-9781479815104","title":"Sitting in Darkness; Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization (Paperback \/ softback) 9781479815104","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSitting in Darkness\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHsuan L. Hsu (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781479815104\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 20 February 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.431 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A brilliant book that will add immeasurably to Mark Twain studies, American literary studies, and the field of comparative studies of race and ethnicity. Exciting, well-written, and filled with surprising, unexpected connections,Sitting in Darknesscontributes to our understanding of the history of comparative racialization in America while deftly placing literature in legal and social contexts that are truly illuminating.\" - Shelley Fisher Fishkin,Professor of English and Director of American Studies, Stanford University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the most popular of all canonical\u003cbr\u003e American authors, Mark Twain is famous for creating works that satirize\u003cbr\u003e American formations of race and empire. While many scholars have explored\u003cbr\u003e Twain's work in African Americanist contexts, his writing on Asia and Asian\u003cbr\u003e Americans remains largely in the shadows. In Sitting in Darkness, Hsuan Hsu\u003cbr\u003e examines Twain's career-long archive of writings about United States relations\u003cbr\u003e with China and the Philippines. Comparing Twain's early writings about Chinese\u003cbr\u003e immigrants in California and Nevada with his later fictions of slavery and\u003cbr\u003e anti-imperialist essays, he demonstrates that Twain's ideas about race were not\u003cbr\u003e limited to white and black, but profoundly comparative as he carefully crafted\u003cbr\u003e assessments of racialization that drew connections between groups, including\u003cbr\u003e African Americans, Chinese immigrants, and a range of colonial populations.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Drawing on recent legal scholarship,\u003cbr\u003e comparative ethnic studies, and transnational and American studies, Sitting in\u003cbr\u003e Darkness engages Twain's best-known novels such as Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry\u003cbr\u003e Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, as well as his\u003cbr\u003e lesser-known Chinese and trans-Pacific inflected writings, such as the\u003cbr\u003e allegorical tale \"A Fable of the Yellow Terror\" and the yellow face play Ah\u003cbr\u003e Sin. Sitting in Darkness reveals how within intersectional contexts of Chinese\u003cbr\u003e Exclusion and Jim Crow, these writings registered fluctuating connections\u003cbr\u003e between immigration policy, imperialist ventures, and racism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591071101208,"sku":"9781479815104","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sitting-in-darkness-mark-twains-asia-and-comparative-racialization-paperback-softback-9781479815104","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}