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Donovan, Mary Kate.

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Imagining the Orient: Representations of the Chinese in Modern Spanish Culture.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Imagining the Orient: Representations of the Chinese in Modern Spanish Culture./
Author:	Donovan, Mary Kate.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	241 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International79-05A.
Subject:	Romance literature. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10283227
ISBN:	9780355390049

Imagining the Orient: Representations of the Chinese in Modern Spanish Culture.
Donovan, Mary Kate.

Imagining the Orient: Representations of the Chinese in Modern Spanish Culture. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 241 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-05, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2017.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

This dissertation examines representations of the Chinese in twentieth and twenty-first century Spanish cultural production. I argue that many internationally circulating models for representing the Chinese in the West have been re-imagined in Spanish texts in ways that respond to cultural and economic anxieties particular to modern Spain. Adopting a cultural studies approach, this project reads a wide range of texts including film, literature, television, news media, magazines, and visual culture. This project is divided into three chapters, which address the imaginary Chinese, the Chinese migrant, and the Chinese Spaniard.The first chapter focuses on the cultural legacy of representations of the Chinese in Western cultural production, examining the ways in which orientalist discourses such as the "Yellow Peril" and the "Chinatown Myth" have permeated the Spanish imaginary. I argue that Spain's uneven modernization during the early twentieth century reveals an ambivalent relationship with racial otherness. For example, the unofficial naming of Barcelona's fifth district as "el Barrio Chino" in 1925 is indicative of a desire to construct within the city a cosmopolitan cultural capital. The chapter also reads representations of the film star Anna May Wong in Spanish film magazines and the serial appearances of the fictional Fu-Manchu character within Spanish cultural production, particularly in the work of novelist Juan Marse.The second and third chapters deal more specifically with representations of the Chinese diaspora in contemporary Spain. In the second chapter I look at Chinese migrants as they are represented in Spanish literary and visual culture, including films like La fuente amarilla, Tapas, and Biutiful, and the novels Sociedad negra and Laberinto de mentiras. I argue that in these texts the Chinese are generally portrayed in terms of their economic roles and in ways that mitigate the economic anxieties of a Spanish audience dealing with a devastating financial crisis. The final chapter addresses texts by and about Spain's growing generation of Chinese Spaniards. Through an analysis of texts such as the graphic novel Gazpacho agridulce and the documentary Generacion Mei Ming, I explore how the Chinese community's second generation interrogates established notions of Spanishness and highlights the reality of Spain's increasing ethnic and cultural diversity in the twenty-first century.

ISBN: 9780355390049Subjects--Topical Terms:

2144781
Romance literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Chinese diaspora

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