Name: Off-White: Yellowface and Chinglish by Anglo-American Culture (en Inglés)
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Author: Ma, Sheng-Mei
ISBN: 9781501381478

portada Off-White: Yellowface and Chinglish by Anglo-American Culture (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Sheng-Mei Ma

Editorial

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

264

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm

Peso

0.35 kg.

ISBN13

9781501381478

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Asioamericanos
Historia del cine
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Off-White: Yellowface and Chinglish by Anglo-American Culture (en Inglés)

Sheng-Mei Ma (Autor) · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Off-White: Yellowface and Chinglish by Anglo-American Culture (en Inglés)"

How do English-speaking novelists and filmmakers tell stories of China from a Chinese perspective? How do they keep up appearances of pseudo-Sino immanence while ventriloquizing solely in the English language? Anglo writers and their readers join in this century-old game of impersonating and dubbing Chinese. Throughout this wish fulfillment, writers lean on grammatical and conceptual frameworks of their mother tongue to represent an alien land and its yellowface aliens. Off-white or yellow-ish characters and their foreign-sounding speech are thus performed in Anglo-American fiction and visual culture; both yellowface and Chinglish are of, for, by the (white) people.Off-White interrogates seminal Anglo-American fiction and film on off-white bodies and voices. It commences with one Nobel laureate, Pearl Buck, and ends with another, Kazuo Ishiguro, almost a century later. The trajectory in between illustrates that the detective and mystery genres continue unabated their stock yellowface characters, who exude a magnetic field so powerful as to pull in Japanese anime. This universal drive to fashion a foil is ingrained in any will to power, so much so that even millennial China creates an "off-yellow," darker-hued Orient in Huallywood films to silhouette its global ascent.