{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@id":"https://repo.library.stonybrook.edu/cantaloupe/iiif/2/manifest.json","@type":"sc:Manifest","label":"Imagining the Orient: Representations of the Chinese in Modern Spanish Culture","metadata":[{"label":"dc.description.sponsorship","value":"This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree"},{"label":"dc.format","value":"Monograph"},{"label":"dc.format.medium","value":"Electronic Resource"},{"label":"dc.format.mimetype","value":"Application/PDF"},{"label":"dc.identifier.uri","value":"http://hdl.handle.net/11401/78332"},{"label":"dc.language.iso","value":"en_US"},{"label":"dcterms.abstract","value":"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 \u201cYellow Peril\u201d and the \u201cChinatown Myth\u201d have permeated the Spanish imaginary. I argue that Spain\u2019s uneven modernization during the early twentieth century reveals an ambivalent relationship with racial otherness. For example, the unofficial naming of Barcelona\u2019s fifth district as \u201cel Barrio Chino\u201d 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 Mars\u00e9. 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\u2019s growing generation of Chinese Spaniards. Through an analysis of texts such as the graphic novel Gazpacho agridulce and the documentary Generaci\u00f3n Mei Ming, I explore how the Chinese community\u2019s second generation interrogates established notions of Spanishness and highlights the reality of Spain\u2019s increasing ethnic and cultural diversity in the twenty-first century."},{"label":"dcterms.available","value":"2018-07-09T13:30:23Z"},{"label":"dcterms.contributor","value":"Labanyi, Jo"},{"label":"dcterms.creator","value":"Donovan, Mary Kate"},{"label":"dcterms.dateAccepted","value":"2018-07-09T13:30:23Z"},{"label":"dcterms.dateSubmitted","value":"2018-07-09T13:30:23Z"},{"label":"dcterms.description","value":"Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature."},{"label":"dcterms.extent","value":"241 pg."},{"label":"dcterms.format","value":"Monograph"},{"label":"dcterms.identifier","value":"http://hdl.handle.net/11401/78332"},{"label":"dcterms.issued","value":"2017-08-01"},{"label":"dcterms.language","value":"en_US"},{"label":"dcterms.provenance","value":"Submitted by Jason Torre (fjason.torre@stonybrook.edu) on 2018-07-09T13:30:23Z\nNo. of bitstreams: 1\nDonovan_grad.sunysb_0771E_13280.pdf: 148879780 bytes, checksum: fb2e896f325298d9d6be2475084fc86c (MD5)"},{"label":"dcterms.subject","value":"Chinese Diaspora"},{"label":"dcterms.title","value":"Imagining the Orient: Representations of the Chinese in Modern Spanish Culture"},{"label":"dcterms.type","value":"Dissertation"},{"label":"dc.type","value":"Dissertation"}],"description":"This manifest was generated dynamically","viewingDirection":"left-to-right","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://repo.library.stonybrook.edu/cantaloupe/iiif/2/canvas/page-1.json","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"Page 1","height":1650,"width":1275,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://repo.library.stonybrook.edu/cantaloupe/iiif/2/18%2F90%2F51%2F18905148599116444172358904117264495506/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","height":1650,"width":1275,"service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://repo.library.stonybrook.edu/cantaloupe/iiif/2/18%2F90%2F51%2F18905148599116444172358904117264495506","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"}},"on":"https://repo.library.stonybrook.edu/cantaloupe/iiif/2/canvas/page-1.json"}]}]}]}