Sitting in Darkness ：Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization ( America and the Long 19th Century )

Publication subTitle ：Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization

Publication series ：America and the Long 19th Century

Author： Hsu Hsuan L.  

Publisher： NYU Press‎

Publication year： 2015

E-ISBN: 9781479843404

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781479880416

Subject： I05 Literary and literary creation;I106 the classics and study

Keyword： 作品评论和研究,各体文学理论和创作方法

Language： ENG

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Chapter

Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: “Coolies” and Comparative Racialization in the Global West

1. “A Witness More Powerful than Himself”: Race, Testimony, and Twain’s Courtroom Farces

2. Vagrancy and Comparative Racialization in Huckleberry Finn and “Three Vagabonds of Trinidad”

3. “Coolies” and Corporate Personhood in Those Extraordinary Twins

4. A Connecticut Yankee in the Court of Wu Chih Tien: Imperial Romance and Chinese Modernization

5. Body Counts and Comparative Anti-imperialism

Conclusion: Post-racial Twain?

Notes

Works Cited

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