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English 150 Final UW - MadisonOrientalism - correct answer-Ideas and beliefs held by "the West" about "the East"
Pits the West and East against each other
Includes both attraction and repulsion
Edward Said, Orientalism (1978) - correct answer-The Orient was a European invention
Used as a way to dominate the east
Study of British and French knowledge of and representations of "the Orient"
Focuses on the Middle East and not eastern Asia
Themes of Orientalism - correct answer-Feminine, backward, sensual, stagnant, heathen
(non-Christian)
American Orientalism - correct answer-Chinese luxury goods ("fine china") play a major role
in early trade between America and China
Economic rivalry leads to an increased presence of racism
The Yellow Peril - correct answer-Ideology that Chinese immigration would lead to the
collapse of Western civilization
London (The Yellow Peril) - correct answer-Aftermath of Russo-Japanese War in which
Japan defeats Russia
real "peril" is a possible union of Chinese and Japanese
Success of Japanese is rooted on their "imitation" of the West
Koreans: perfect type of inefficiency
Chinese: perfect type of efficiency, but lack enterprise due to government
London (The Unparalleled Invasion) - correct answer-China and West as opposites, "mental
aliens"
Chinese immigration as invasion of West
Solution: genocide of Chinese through biological warfare
Fu Manchu - correct answer-Personification of the Yellow Peril
, feline, genius, deviant, wealthy
Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton) - correct answer-mixed-race Asian North American
Often seen as first expression of Asian American
Sympathizes with Chinese immigrants
Dhan Gopal Mukerji - correct answer-First Indian author to write successfully about India for
US audiences
Caste and Outcaste
China Men (Kingston) - correct answer-Blurring of genres
Father's silence
Focuses on men's experiences
Narrator invents missing stories
Modernist Orientialism - correct answer-Ezra Pound
In a Station of the Metro (Pound) - correct answer-"imagist" poem inspired by haiku
Cathay (Pound) - correct answer-Translations from Chinese poetry based on the work of
scholar Ernest Fenollosa
The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry (Ernest Fenollosa) - correct
answer-Notes used by Ezra Pound
Addresses the potential of the Orient
Learn from Chinese due to vast history
America is in the Heart (Bulosan) - correct answer-Tradition in Philippines vs Modernity of
Idealization of American White Women
Abraham Lincoln story (poor boy becomes US president)
Is cast as an outsider to other minorities after entering the US
band with other Fillipinos
Brotherhood = freedom
Imprisonment = sexualized women
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