Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: The Chinese Question in the Early Afterlife of Slavery 1
5. Part One. “Earliest Pioneers” of White Literature of the West During Reconstruction
6. 1. The “Heathen Chinee” and Topsy in Bret Harte’s Narratives of the West 25
7. 2. Mark Twain’s Chinese Characters and the Fungibility of Blackness 65
8. 3. Ambrose Bierce’s Critique of Blackface Minstrelsy and Anti-Chinese Racism 109
9. Part Two. “Pioneers” of Asian American and African American Literatures at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
10. 4. Representations of Gender and Slavery in Sui Sin Far’s Early Fictions 147
11. 5. Reading the Minstrel Tradition and U.S. Empire Through Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition 186
12. Notes 227
13. Bibliography 245
14. Index 271