02758cam a2200301 4500 2720169793 TxAuBib 20260401120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781479843404 1479843407 B00RLTA4G8 Amazon 1bec9293-5e7f-47c9-befe-97642467b146 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2074412 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Hsu, Hsuan L. Sitting in Darkness [Libby eBook] : Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization. NYU Press, 2015. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. American. HTML:<p>Perhaps the most popular of all canonical<br /> American authors, Mark Twain is famous for creating works that satirize<br /> American formations of race and empire. While many scholars have explored<br /> Twain's work in African Americanist contexts, his writing on Asia and Asian<br /> Americans remains largely in the shadows. In Sitting in Darkness, Hsuan Hsu<br /> examines Twain's career-long archive of writings about United States relations<br /> with China and the Philippines. Comparing Twain's early writings about Chinese<br /> immigrants in California and Nevada with his later fictions of slavery and<br /> anti-imperialist essays, he demonstrates that Twain's ideas about race were not<br /> limited to white and black, but profoundly comparative as he carefully crafted<br /> assessments of racialization that drew connections between groups, including<br /> African Americans, Chinese immigrants, and a range of colonial populations.<br /> Drawing on recent legal scholarship,<br /> comparative ethnic studies, and transnational and American studies, Sitting in<br /> Darkness engages Twain's best-known novels such as Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry<br /> Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, as well as his<br /> lesser-known Chinese and trans-Pacific inflected writings, such as the<br /> allegorical tale "A Fable of the Yellow Terror" and the yellow face play Ah<br /> Sin. Sitting in Darkness reveals how within intersectional contexts of Chinese<br /> Exclusion and Jim Crow, these writings registered fluctuating connections<br /> between immigration policy, imperialist ventures, and racism.</p>. Literary Criticism. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-03-31 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/sitting-in-darkness?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/sitting-in-darkness?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)