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

ISBN-13: 9781439905869 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 216 str.

Karen Kuo

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Between 1919-1938, aa contact between Asia and America forced a reassessment of the normative boundaries of race, sex, gender, class, home, and nation. Karen KuoOCOs provocative "East Is West and West Is East" looks closely at these global shifts to modernity.

In her analysis of five forgotten textsOCothe 1930 film East Is West, Frank CapraOCOs 1937 version of "Lost Horizon "and its 1973 remake, Younghill Kang's novel "East Goes West," and Baroness IshimotoOCOs memoir/manifesto, "Facing Both Ways"OCoKuo elucidates how OC AsiaOCO 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 asserts that while notions of white and Asian racial difference remain salient, sexual and gendered constructions of Asians and whites were at times about similarity and intersections as much as they were about establishing differences.a
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