{"product_id":"9781479880416-sitting-in-darkness","title":"Sitting in Darkness","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps the most popular of all canonical American authors, Mark Twain is famous for creating works that satirize American formations of race and empire. Drawing on legal scholarship, comparative ethnic studies, and transnational and American studies, this book engages with Twain's best-known novels such as Tom Sawyer, and Huckleberry Finn.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the most popular of all canonical\u003cbr\u003eAmerican authors, Mark Twain is famous for creating works that satirize\u003cbr\u003eAmerican formations of race and empire. While many scholars have explored\u003cbr\u003eTwain’s work in African Americanist contexts, his writing on Asia and Asian\u003cbr\u003eAmericans remains largely in the shadows. In Sitting in Darkness, Hsuan Hsu\u003cbr\u003eexamines Twain’s career-long archive of writings about United States relations\u003cbr\u003ewith China and the Philippines. Comparing Twain’s early writings about Chinese\u003cbr\u003eimmigrants in California and Nevada with his later fictions of slavery and\u003cbr\u003eanti-imperialist essays, he demonstrates that Twain’s ideas about race were not\u003cbr\u003elimited to white and black, but profoundly comparative as he carefully crafted\u003cbr\u003eassessments of racialization that drew connections between groups, including\u003cbr\u003eAfrican Americans, Chinese immigrants, and a range of colonial populations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on recent legal scholarship,\u003cbr\u003ecomparative ethnic studies, and transnational and American studies, Sitting in\u003cbr\u003eDarkness engages Twain’s best-known novels such as Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry\u003cbr\u003eFinn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, as well as his\u003cbr\u003elesser-known Chinese and trans-Pacific inflected writings, such as the\u003cbr\u003eallegorical tale “A Fable of the Yellow Terror” and the yellow face play Ah\u003cbr\u003eSin. Sitting in Darkness reveals how within intersectional contexts of Chinese\u003cbr\u003eExclusion and Jim Crow, these writings registered fluctuating connections\u003cbr\u003ebetween immigration policy, imperialist ventures, and racism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55209470591350,"sku":"9781479880416","price":130.33,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27213617.jpg?v=1738228008","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781479880416-sitting-in-darkness","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}