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The yellow peril discourse in anglophone and sinophone literatures and cultures, 1895 to the present: mutations, reactions, and reinventions

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Focusing on appropriations of the racist Yellow Peril discourse in a range of Anglophone and Sinophone contexts from 1895 to the present, this thesis advocates a transnational and situated approach to the study of narratives of racialization. It seeks to challenge the discursive ossification of “Yellow Peril” in the existing English-language scholarship dominated by Asian American Studies. The shifting presences and absences of the “Yellow Peril” in a diverse range of cultural materials, incl...

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HUMS
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English Faculty
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Type of award:
DPhil
Level of award:
Doctoral
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University of Oxford

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