| America''s Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945 Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Asia -- Foreign public opinion American; Asia -- Relations -- United States; United States -- Relations -- Asia; Asian Americans i; What explains the perception of Asians both as economic exemplars and as threats? America's Asia explores a discursive tradition that affiliates the East with modern efficiency, in contrast to more familiar primitivist forms of Orientalism. Colleen Lye traces the American stereotype of Asians as a "model minority" or a "yellow peril"--two aspects of what she calls "Asiatic racial form"-- to emergent responses to globalization beginning in California in the late nineteenth century, when industrialization proceeded in tandem with the nation's neocolonial expansion beyond its continental frontier. Colleen Lye is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is an editorial board member of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies and Representations . |