{"id":7977,"date":"2010-07-12T22:15:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T22:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7977"},"modified":"2010-07-12T22:15:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T22:15:51","slug":"situating-the-essential-alien-sui-sin-far%e2%80%99s-depiction-of-chinese-white-marriage-and-the-exclusionary-logic-of-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7977","title":{"rendered":"Situating the Essential Alien: Sui Sin Far\u2019s Depiction of Chinese-White Marriage and the Exclusionary Logic of Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/modern_fiction_studies\/summary\/v054\/54.4.degenhardt.html\" target=\"_blank\">Situating the Essential Alien: Sui Sin Far\u2019s Depiction of Chinese-White Marriage and the Exclusionary Logic of Citizenship<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/modern_fiction_studies\" target=\"_blank\">MFS Modern Fiction Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/modern_fiction_studies\/toc\/mfs.54.4.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 54, Number 4, Winter 2008<\/a><br \/>\npages 654-688<br \/>\nE-ISSN: 1080-658X Print ISSN: 0026-7724<br \/>\nDOI: 10.1353\/mfs.0.1561<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umass.edu\/english\/facProfiles\/Degenhardt.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Hwang Degenhardt<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>University of Massachusetts, Amherst<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This essay looks at how <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sui_Sin_Far\" target=\"_blank\">Sui Sin Far\u2019s<\/a> [born Edith Maude Eaton] short stories contested an emerging model of national citizenship that attempted to expand the rights of blacks and women by excluding Chinese immigrants. It argues that her depiction of Chinese-White marriage strategically redresses anxieties about black-white <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a> that were fueled by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Progressivism_in_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">Progressive<\/a> and post-<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction_era_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">Reconstruction<\/a> reform. While Sui Sin Far counters Chinese national exclusion by strategically pointing up the more offensive threat of black racial difference, she also exposes the disingenuous logic that attempted to situate national and racial exclusions on opposite sides of a hinge.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/modern_fiction_studies\/v054\/54.4.degenhardt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Situating the Essential Alien: Sui Sin Far\u2019s Depiction of Chinese-White Marriage and the Exclusionary Logic of Citizenship MFS Modern Fiction Studies Volume 54, Number 4, Winter 2008 pages 654-688 E-ISSN: 1080-658X Print ISSN: 0026-7724 DOI: 10.1353\/mfs.0.1561 Jane Hwang Degenhardt, Assistant Professor of English University of Massachusetts, Amherst This essay looks at how Sui Sin Far\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,459,1196,20],"tags":[3318,3317,3316,3319],"class_list":["post-7977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-usa","tag-edith-maude-eaton","tag-jane-hwang-degenhardt","tag-mfs-modern-fiction-studies","tag-sui-sin-far"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}