Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Women Authors - American (U.S.) - Literary Criticism, U.S. & Canadian Drama - Literary Criticism, Asian American Literature - Literary Criticism
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Starting in 1767 with the first portrayal of China and the Chinese on stage in the American colonies, Williams (theater, Ohio State U.-Newark) traces the evolution of such portrayals from harmless buffoons to hardened criminals. He argues that though the manifest content varied widely from play to play, the portrayals all sprang from the Euroamerican need to maintain a race-based separation from the Chinese. He ends the year after US law limited Chinese immigration to a trickle. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
February 1, 2000
Publisher
New York : P. Lang, c2000.
Pages
286
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780820445595