Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization

by Hsuan L. Hsu

Book Overview

Perhaps the most popular of all canonical
American authors, Mark Twain is famous for creating works that satirize
American formations of race and empire. While many scholars have explored
Twain's work in African Americanist contexts, his writing on Asia and Asian
Americans remains largely in the shadows. In Sitting in Darkness, Hsuan Hsu
examines Twain's career-long archive of writings about United States relations
with China...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479815101
• ISBN13: 9781479815104
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 8.8"