Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War (Literature Now)
Why were U.S. intelligence organizations so preoccupied with demystifying East and Southeast Asia during the mid-twentieth century? Sunny Xiang offers a new way of understanding the American cold war in Asia by tracing aesthetic manifestations of Oriental inscrutability across a wide range of texts. She examines how cold war regimes of suspicious thinking produced an ambiguity between Oriental enemies and Asian allies, contributing to the conflicts status as both a real war and a long peace.Xiang puts interrogation reports, policy memos, and field notes into conversation with novels, poems, documentaries, and mixed media work by artists such as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ha Jin, and Trinh T. Minh-ha. She engages her archive through a reading practice centered on tone, juxtaposing Asian diasporans who appear similar in profile yet who differ in tone. Tonal Intelligence considers how the meaning of race, war, and empire came under pressure during two interlinked periods of geopolitical transition: American nation-building in East and Southeast Asia during the mid-twentieth century and Asian economic modernization during the late twentieth century. By reading both state records and aesthetic texts from these periods for their tone rather than their content, Xiang shows how bygone threats of Asian communism and emergent regimes of Asian capitalism have elicited distinct yet related anxieties about racial intelligibility. Featuring bold methods, unlikely archives, and acute close readings, Tonal Intelligence rethinks the marking and making of race during the long cold war.
yazar | Sunny Xiang |
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Boyutlar ve boyutlar | 15.24 x 2.39 x 22.86 cm |
Tarafından yayınlandı | 27 Ekim 2020 |
ERWIN N GRISWOLD Additional Contributors 29 Ekim 2011 18,9 x 0,4 x 24,6 cm 18,9 x 0,5 x 24,6 cm 30 Ekim 2011 Kolektif 1 Ocak 2017 ROBERT H BORK 18,9 x 0,2 x 24,6 cm 18,9 x 0,6 x 24,6 cm 15 x 0,5 x 22 cm 18,9 x 0,3 x 24,6 cm 3 Ocak 2017 28 Ekim 2011 Mdpi AG WADE H MCCREE 28 Şubat 2018
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Sürüm ayrıntıları
yazar | Sunny Xiang |
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isbn 10 | 0231196962 |
isbn 13 | 978-0231196963 |
Yayımcı | Columbia University Press |
Boyutlar ve boyutlar | 15.24 x 2.39 x 22.86 cm |
Tarafından yayınlandı Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War (Literature Now) | 27 Ekim 2020 |
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