Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961

by Christina Klein

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In the years following World War II, American writers and artists produced a steady stream of popular stories about Americans living, working, and traveling in Asia and the Pacific. Meanwhile the U.S., competing with the Soviet Union for global power, extended its reach into Asia to an unprecedented degree. This book reveals that these trends--the proliferation of Orientalist culture and the expansion of U.S. power--were linked in complex and surprising...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520232305

ISBN13:9780520232303

Release Date:March 2003

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

American Literature Americas Asia History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences

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