Off-White: Yellowface and Chinglish by Anglo-American Culture

by Sheng-Mei Ma

Book Overview

How do English-speaking novelists and filmmakers tell stories of China from a Chinese perspective? How do they keep up appearances of pseudo-Sino immanence while ventriloquizing solely in the English language? Anglo writers and their readers join in this century-old game of impersonating and dubbing Chinese. Throughout this wish fulfillment, writers lean on grammatical and conceptual frameworks of their mother tongue to represent an alien land...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501352202
• ISBN13: 9781501352201
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"