{"product_id":"off-white-yellowface-and-chinglish-by-anglo-american-culture-paperback","title":"Off-White: Yellowface and Chinglish by Anglo-American Culture - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSheng-Mei Ma\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOff-White\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSheng-mei Ma \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of English at Michigan State University in Michigan, USA, specializing in Asian Diaspora and East-West comparative studies. He is the author of nine books, including \u003ci\u003eSinophone-Anglophone Cultural Duet \u003c\/i\u003e(2017), \u003ci\u003e The Last Isle \u003c\/i\u003e(2015), and \u003ci\u003eAlienglish\u003c\/i\u003e (2014). He is also the co-editor of four books, most recently \u003ci\u003eTransnational Narratives in Englishes of Exile\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), and the author of a collection of poetry in Chinese\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 20, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51786320281888,"sku":"9781501381478","price":80.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e3407da966025e1f4bafe4e60ffd7458.webp?v=1780631929","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/off-white-yellowface-and-chinglish-by-anglo-american-culture-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}