Uncoupling American Empire : Cultural Politics of Deviance and Unequal Difference, 1890-1910
A cultural studies consideration of marriage and those considered "deviant" in the nineteenth-century American imagination
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2014
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | SUNY Series in Multiethnic Literatures Series
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Unfree Labor and the Geopolitics of Marriage and Sexuality
- Mapping Marriage and "Slavery" in the Shadow of Empire
- Toward a Beginning of Cultural Genealogy of Unequal Difference
- Part I: Uncertain Domesticity
- 1. Sexual Deviance and Racial Excess
- The Limits of Transgression: White Femininity in Women's College Fiction
- Spectacles of Race as Scenes of Education in the Shadow of Empires
- 2. Orientalism, Black Domesticity, and Imperial Ambivalence
- Colored Soldiers and the U.S. Empire
- Imperial Ambivalence in Black Orientalism
- Dora, the Forgotten Working Girl: The Racial Contradictions of Marriage and Citizenship
- Domesticity Under the Shadow of Slavery: Capitalism and Its Reproduction
- Of One Blood, Yet Different: The Contradictions and Limits of Antiracist Internationalism
- Part II: Transpacific Archives Unbound
- 3. "Yellow Slavery" and Sensational Violence
- The Absence of the U.S. Empire and the "Chinese Question"
- "Yellow Slavery" and Sensational Journalism
- Narratives of Rescue and Sui Sin Far's "Lin John" (1899)
- 4. Domesticating the Aliens: Sentimental Benevolence
- Heterosexual Love as the Path to Emancipation
- "Benevolent Ethnography" in Late-Nineteenth-Century California Magazines
- From Slavery to Racialized Domesticity
- Almost Becoming American, but Not Quite
- "United in Another City": The Passion of a Slave Girl
- 5. Domesticity, Race, and Colonial Modernity
- Spectacles of the New Frontiers
- Enslavement, Conversion, and Liberation
- Other Passages
- Postscript: The Obama Paradox
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index