{"product_id":"sitting-in-darkness","title":"Sitting in Darkness","description":"\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the most popular of all canonical\u003cbr\u003e\nAmerican authors, Mark Twain is famous for creating works that satirize\u003cbr\u003e\nAmerican formations of race and empire. While many scholars have explored\u003cbr\u003e\nTwain’s work in African Americanist contexts, his writing on Asia and Asian\u003cbr\u003e\nAmericans remains largely in the shadows. In Sitting in Darkness, Hsuan Hsu\u003cbr\u003e\nexamines Twain’s career-long archive of writings about United States relations\u003cbr\u003e\nwith China and the Philippines. Comparing Twain’s early writings about Chinese\u003cbr\u003e\nimmigrants in California and Nevada with his later fictions of slavery and\u003cbr\u003e\nanti-imperialist essays, he demonstrates that Twain’s ideas about race were not\u003cbr\u003e\nlimited to white and black, but profoundly comparative as he carefully crafted\u003cbr\u003e\nassessments of racialization that drew connections between groups, including\u003cbr\u003e\nAfrican Americans, Chinese immigrants, and a range of colonial populations.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nDrawing on recent legal scholarship,\u003cbr\u003e\ncomparative ethnic studies, and transnational and American studies, Sitting in\u003cbr\u003e\nDarkness engages Twain’s best-known novels such as Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry\u003cbr\u003e\nFinn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, as well as his\u003cbr\u003e\nlesser-known Chinese and trans-Pacific inflected writings, such as the\u003cbr\u003e\nallegorical tale “A Fable of the Yellow Terror” and the yellow face play Ah\u003cbr\u003e\nSin. Sitting in Darkness reveals how within intersectional contexts of Chinese\u003cbr\u003e\nExclusion and Jim Crow, these writings registered fluctuating connections\u003cbr\u003e\nbetween immigration policy, imperialist ventures, and racism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54221407682904,"sku":"9781479880416","price":86.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781479880416__67654f4e5e6be.jpg?v=1741159552","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/sitting-in-darkness","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}