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Sitting in Darkness

Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization

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Sitting in Darkness

Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization

By: Hsuan L. Hsu

Perhaps the most popular of all canonical American authors, Mark Twain is famous for creating works that satirize American formations of race and empire. While many scholars have explored Twain’s work in African Americanist contexts, his writing on Asia and Asian Americans remains largely in the shadows. In Sitting in Darkness, Hsuan Hsu examines Twain’s career-long archive of writings about United States relations with China and the Philippines. Comparing Twain’s early writings about Chinese immigrants in California and Nevada with his later fictions of slavery and anti-imperialist essays, he demonstrates that Twain’s ideas about race were not limited to white and black, but profoundly comparative as he carefully crafted assessments of racialization that drew connections between groups, including African Americans, Chinese immigrants, and a range of colonial populations. Drawing on recent legal scholarship, comparative ethnic studies, and transnational and American studies, Sitting in Darkness engages Twain’s best-known novels such as Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, as well as his lesser-known Chinese and trans-Pacific inflected writings, such as the allegorical tale “A Fable of the Yellow Terror” and the yellow face play Ah Sin. Sitting in Darkness reveals how within intersectional contexts of Chinese Exclusion and Jim Crow, these writings registered fluctuating connections between immigration policy, imperialist ventures, and racism.

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NYU Press

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1479880418

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9781479880416

Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

By: Hsuan L. Hsu

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Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

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This book examines how literature represents different kinds of spaces, from the single-family home to the globe. It focuses on how nineteenth-century authors drew on literary tools including rhetoric, setting, and point of view to mediate between individuals and different spaces, and re-examines how local spaces were incorporated into global networks.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521197066

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9780521197069

Two Texts by Edward Everett Hale

"The Man Without a Country" and Philip Nolan's Friends

By: Edward Everett Hale,Hsuan L. Hsu,Susan Kalter

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"The Man Without a Country" and Philip Nolan's Friends

By: Edward Everett Hale,Hsuan L. Hsu,Susan Kalter

Two Texts by Edward Everett Hale brings together one of the most popular stories of the nineteenth-century, "The Man Without a Country," with its novel-length sequel, Philip Nolan's Friends. As Hsuan Hsu and Susan Kalter show in this critical edition, these engaging works of fiction helped orient nineteenth-century Americans' opinions about citizenship, statelessness, imperialism, and conflicts with Mexico and Native American nations in the U.S. Southwest.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0739136801

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9780739136805

The Smell of Risk

Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics

By: Hsuan L. Hsu

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The Smell of Risk

Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics

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A timely exploration of how odor seeps into structural inequality Our sense of smell is a uniquely visceral—and personal—form of experience. As Hsuan L. Hsu points out, smell has long been spurned by Western aesthetics as a lesser sense for its qualities of subjectivity, volatility, and materiality. But it is these very qualities that make olfaction a vital tool for sensing and staging environmental risk and inequality. Unlike the other senses, smell extends across space and reaches into our bodies. Hsu traces how writers, artists, and activists have deployed these embodied, biochemical qualities of smell in their efforts to critique and reshape modernity’s olfactory disparities. The Smell of Risk outlines the many ways that our differentiated atmospheres unevenly distribute environmental risk. Reading everything from nineteenth-century detective fiction and naturalist novels to contemporary performance art and memoir, Hsu takes up modernity’s differentiated atmospheres as a subject worth sniffing out. From the industrial revolution to current-day environmental crises, Hsu uses ecocriticism, geography, and critical race studies to, for example, explore Latinx communities exposed to freeway exhaust and pesticides, Asian diasporic artists’ response to racialized discourse about Asiatic odors, and the devastation settler colonialism has reaped on Indigenous smellscapes. In each instance, Hsu demonstrates the violence that air maintenance, control, and conditioning enacts on the poor and the marginalized. From nineteenth-century miasma theory theory to the synthetic chemicals that pervade twenty-first century air, Hsu takes smell at face value to offer an evocative retelling of urbanization, public health, and environmental violence.

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NYU Press

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1479810096

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9781479810093

Air Conditioning

By: Hsuan L. Hsu

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Air Conditioning

By: Hsuan L. Hsu

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Air conditioning aspires to be unnoticed. Yet, by manipulating the air around us, it quietly conditions the baseline conditions of our physical, mental, and emotional experience. From offices and libraries to contemporary art museums and shopping malls, climate control systems shore up the fantasy of a comfortable, self-contained body that does not have to reckon with temperature. At the same time that air conditioning makes temperature a non-issue in (some) people's daily lives, thermoception-or the sensory perception of temperature-is being carefully studied and exploited as a tool of marketing, social control, and labor management. Yet air conditioning isn't for everybody: its reliance on carbon fuels divides the world into habitable, climate-controlled bubbles and increasingly uninhabitable environments where AC is unavailable. Hsuan Hsu's Air Conditioning explores questions about culture, ethics, ecology, and social justice raised by the history and uneven distribution of climate controlling technologies. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501377833

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9781501377839

Music Emotion Recognition

By: Yi-Hsuan Yang,Homer H. Chen

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Music Emotion Recognition

By: Yi-Hsuan Yang,Homer H. Chen

Providing a complete review of existing work in music emotion developed in psychology and engineering, Music Emotion Recognition explains how to account for the subjective nature of emotion perception in the development of automatic music emotion recognition (MER) systems. Among the first publications dedicated to automatic MER, it begins with

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CRC Press

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143985047X

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9781439850473

Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

By: Hsuan L. Hsu

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Air Conditioning

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The Smell of Risk

Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics

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Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics

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Sitting in Darkness

Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization

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Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization

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Book's by Hsuan L. Hsu

Sitting in Darkness

Sitting in Darkness

Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Two Texts by Edward Everett Hale

Two Texts by Edward Everett Hale

The Smell of Risk

The Smell of Risk

Air Conditioning

Air Conditioning

Music Emotion Recognition

Music Emotion Recognition

Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Air Conditioning

Air Conditioning

The Smell of Risk

The Smell of Risk

Sitting in Darkness

Sitting in Darkness

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