{"product_id":"the-peculiar-afterlife-of-slavery-the-chinese-worker-and-the-minstrel-form-9781503612051","title":"The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery: The Chinese Worker and the Minstrel Form","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e explores how antiblack racism lived on through the figure of the Chinese worker in US literature after emancipation. Drawing out the connections between this liminal figure and the formal aesthetics of blackface minstrelsy in literature of the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction eras, Caroline H. Yang reveals the ways antiblackness structured US cultural production during a crucial moment of reconstructing and re-narrating US empire after the Civil War. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExamining texts by major American writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Sui Sin Far, and Charles Chesnutt--Yang traces the intertwined histories of blackface minstrelsy and Chinese labor. Her bold rereading of these authors' contradictory positions on race and labor sees the figure of the Chinese worker as both hiding and making visible the legacy of slavery and antiblackness. Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eThe Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the Chinese worker manifests the inextricable links between US literature, slavery, and empire, as well as the indispensable role of antiblackness as a cultural form in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Caroline H. Yang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Asian America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503612051","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44135889043593,"sku":"9781503612051","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_b4fbcfa4-f917-4e15-89f1-8100e09ae2a6.jpg?v=1748395551","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-peculiar-afterlife-of-slavery-the-chinese-worker-and-the-minstrel-form-9781503612051","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}