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Off-white : yellowface and Chinglish by Anglo-American culture

Ma, Sheng-mei, author

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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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Subject: Chinese in motion pictures. / Motion pictures United States History and criticism. / China In motion pictures. / Stereotypes (Social psychology) in motion pictures. / Chinese in literature. / Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature. / American fiction History and criticism.
• ISBN: 9781501352201, 1501352202

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PN1995.9.C48 M33 2020	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE