Off-White
Yellowface and Chinglish by Anglo-American Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23547643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sheng-Mei Ma |
| Year | 2020 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Off-White (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Academic (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5040/9781501352218 |
| OpenAlex | W4235982123 |
| ISBN | 9781501352218 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
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
Alien · Art · China · Linguistics · Literature · Perspective (graphical) · Pidgin · Sociology · Visual arts · White (mutation) · Wish · History · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |