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Immigrants in literature. --- Literature and society --- Minorities in literature. --- National characteristics, English, in literature. --- South Asians in literature. --- History

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Comment Tintin, Bécassine, Zig et Puce et autres héros pour enfants ont appris aux jeunes lecteurs de l'entre-deux-guerres à considérer les Africains et les Asiatiques ? C'est ce que dévoile cet ouvrage, enquête dans une France où la littérature de jeunesse s'est faite le relais de l'exaltation coloniale et pour ce faire n'a pas hésité à présenter les populations asiatiques et africaines comme arriérées, primitives, adonnées à la superstition et inaptes à l'indépendance.

Africans in literature --- Asians in literature --- Children's literature, French --- Racism in literature --- History and criticism --- Littérature française pour la jeunesse --- Noirs --- Blancs --- Race --- Préjugés --- Ouvrages de référence

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Why were U.S. intelligence organizations so preoccupied with demystifying East and Southeast Asia during the mid-twentieth century? Sunny Xiang offers a new way of understanding the American cold war in Asia by tracing aesthetic manifestations of “Oriental inscrutability” across a wide range of texts. She examines how cold war regimes of suspicious thinking produced an ambiguity between “Oriental” enemies and Asian allies, contributing to the conflict’s status as both a “real war” and a “long peace.”Xiang puts interrogation reports, policy memos, and field notes into conversation with novels, poems, documentaries, and mixed media work by artists such as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ha Jin, and Trinh T. Minh-ha. She engages her archive through a reading practice centered on tone, juxtaposing Asian diasporans who appear similar in profile yet who differ in tone. Tonal Intelligence considers how the meaning of race, war, and empire came under pressure during two interlinked periods of geopolitical transition: American “nation-building” in East and Southeast Asia during the mid-twentieth century and Asian economic modernization during the late twentieth century. By reading both state records and aesthetic texts from these periods for their tone rather than their content, Xiang shows how bygone threats of Asian communism and emergent regimes of Asian capitalism have elicited distinct yet related anxieties about racial intelligibility. Featuring bold methods, unlikely archives, and acute close readings, Tonal Intelligence rethinks the marking and making of race during the long cold war.

Asian Americans --- Asian-American --- Asians in literature. --- Asians in motion pictures. --- Cold War --- Orientalism --- Propaganda, American --- Race identity. --- Secret service. --- History --- Asia --- Foreign public opinion, American.

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Asian American women --- Asians in literature --- Canadian fiction --- Eurasians --- Novelists, Canadian --- Sisters --- Asian influences --- Sui Sin Far, --- Eaton, Winnifred, --- Asia --- In literature.

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Pirbhai uses the critical paradigm of 'indenture history' to examine the local literary and cultural histories that have influenced and shaped the development of novel-length fiction by writers of the South Asian diaspora in national contexts as diverse as Mauritius, South Africa, Guyana, and Fiji.

Commonwealth fiction (English) --- South Asian diaspora in literature. --- South Asians in literature. --- Commonwealth of Nations fiction (English) --- English fiction --- Commonwealth literature (English) --- South Asian authors --- History and criticism. --- Commonwealth of Nations authors --- Great Britain --- Colonies --- In literature.