Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization (America and the Long 19th Century, 7),New

Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization (America and the Long 19th Century, 7),New

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Perhaps the most popular of all canonicalAmerican authors, Mark Twain is famous for creating works that satirizeAmerican formations of race and empire. While many scholars have exploredTwains work in African Americanist contexts, his writing on Asia and AsianAmericans remains largely in the shadows. In Sitting in Darkness, Hsuan Hsuexamines Twains careerlong archive of writings about United States relationswith China and the Philippines. Comparing Twains early writings about Chineseimmigrants in California and Nevada with his later fictions of slavery andantiimperialist essays, he demonstrates that Twains ideas about race were notlimited to white and black, but profoundly comparative as he carefully craftedassessments of racialization that drew connections between groups, includingAfrican Americans, Chinese immigrants, and a range of colonial populations.Drawing on recent legal scholarship,comparative ethnic studies, and transnational and American studies, Sitting inDarkness engages Twains bestknown novels such as Tom Sawyer, HuckleberryFinn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court, as well as hislesserknown Chinese and transPacific inflected writings, such as theallegorical tale A Fable of the Yellow Terror and the yellow face play AhSin. Sitting in Darkness reveals how within intersectional contexts of ChineseExclusion and Jim Crow, these writings registered fluctuating connectionsbetween immigration policy, imperialist ventures, and racism.

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