America's Asia : racial form and American literature, 1893-1945 /
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 a...
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2005.
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