Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization

ISBN: 9781479880416 出版年：2015 页码：257 Hsu New York University Press

Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: "Coolies" and Comparative Racialization 1 in the Global West 1. "A Witness More Powerful than Himself ": Race, Testimony, 27 and Twain's Courtroom Farces 2. Vagrancy and Comparative Racialization in Huckleberry 53 Finn and "Three Vagabonds of Trinidad" 3. "Coolies" and Corporate Personhood in Those 83 Extraordinary Twins 4. A Connecticut Yankee in the Court of Wu Chih Tien: 109 Imperial Romance and Chinese Modernization 5. Body Counts and Comparative Anti-imperialism 139 Conclusion: Post-racial Twain? 167 Notes 171 Works Cited 209 Index 229 About the Author 244