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Off-White - Yellowface and Chinglish by Anglo-American Culture (Hardcover)
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Off-White - Yellowface and Chinglish by Anglo-American Culture (Hardcover)
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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 and
its yellowface aliens. Off-white or yellow-ish characters and their
foreign-sounding speech are thus performed in Anglo-American
fiction and visual culture; both yellowface and Chinglish are of,
for, by the (white) people. Off-White interrogates seminal
Anglo-American fiction and film on off-white bodies and voices. It
commences with one Nobel laureate, Pearl Buck, and ends with
another, Kazuo Ishiguro, almost a century later. The trajectory in
between illustrates that the detective and mystery genres continue
unabated their stock yellowface characters, who exude a magnetic
field so powerful as to pull in Japanese anime. This universal
drive to fashion a foil is ingrained in any will to power, so much
so that even millennial China creates an "off-yellow," darker-hued
Orient in Huallywood films to silhouette its global ascent.
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