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...
Between 1919-1938, aa contact between Asia and America forced a reassessment of the normative boundaries of race, sex, gender, class, home, and nat...
