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Cold War orientalism: Asia in the middlebrow imagination, 1945-1961

By Klein , Christina

Book information

Publisher
Univ. of California Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780520232303, 0520232305
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9399237 bytes)
Edition
Repr.
Pages
XII, 316 Seiten : Illustrationen\332
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Orientalism--United States--History--20th century;

Description

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Sentimental Education: Creating a Global Imaginary of Integration 2. Reader's Digest, Saturday review, and the Middlebrow Aesthetic of Commitment 3. How to Be an American Abroad: James Michener's The Voice of Asia and Postwar Mass Tourism 4. Family Ties as Political Obligation: Oscar Hammerstein II, South Pacific, and the Discourse of Adoption 5. Musicals and Modernization: The King and I 6. Asians in America: Flower Drum Song and Hawaii Conclusion Notes Index

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