Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War

Sunny Xiang

Published by Columbia University Press 2020

Tonal Intelligence

The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War

Sunny Xiang

In the series Literature Now

https://doi.org/10.7312/xian19696

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About this book

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 puts interrogation reports, policy memos, and field notes into conversation with novels, poems, documentaries, and mixed media work.

Author / Editor information

Sunny Xiang is assistant professor of English at Yale University.

Reviews

Denise Cruz, author of Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina:
Tonal Intelligence is smart and theoretically sophisticated. The book marks a significant contribution to work in Asian American and Asian studies, studies of twentieth-century literature and culture, theories of form and affect, and transpacific studies of late twentieth-century Asia.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Hardly War, Partly History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter One The Tone of Intelligence: Unconventional Warfare and Its Archives Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Chapter Two The Tone of Rumors: Imperial Tours and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Critique of Japanese Exceptionalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Chapter Three The Tone of the Times: Historical Temperament in the Works of Induk Pahk and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
Chapter Four The Tone of Documentation: Combating the Brainwashee’s Drone in Korean War “Testimonies” and “Confessions” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Chapter Five The Tone of Intimacy: Imperial Brotherhood and Trinh T. Minh- ha’s Cinematic Interviews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Coda— The Tone of Commons: Solidarities Without a Solid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	236
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Illustrations
- Other: 18 b&w illustrations

eBook

Published: December 10, 2020
ISBN: 9780231551915