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Yellowface And Chinglish By Anglo-American Culture

by Sheng-Mei Ma
language: english
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (USA), November of 2019 ‧
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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.

Off-White

Yellowface And Chinglish By Anglo-American Culture

by Sheng-Mei Ma

Property Description
ISBN: 9781501352188
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (USA)
Release Date: November of 2019
Language: English
Pages: 264
Format: eBook
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Categories: eBooks in English > Art > Cinema
eBooks in English > Tourist Guides and Maps > North America
EAN: 9781501352188
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