Interracial encounters [electronic resource] : reciprocal representations in African American and Asian American literatures, 1896-1937 / Julia H. Lee.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The 'negro problem' and the 'yellow peril': early twentieth-century America's views on Blacks and Asians -- Estrangement on a train: race and narratives of American identity in the marrow of tradition and America through the spectacles of an oriental diplomat -- The eaton sisters go to Jamaica -- Quicksand and the racial aesthetics of chinoiserie -- Nation, narration, and the Afro-Asian encounter in W. E. B. Du Bois' Dark princess -- And Younghill Kang's East goes west.

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