Improve Your Bridge by David Bird
How do English-speaking novelists and filmmakers tell stories of China from a Chinese perspective? How do they keep up appearances of pseudo-Sino immanence while ventriloquizing solely in the English language? Anglo writers and their readers join in this century-old game of impersonating and dubbing Chinese. Throughout this wish fulfillment, writers lean on grammatical and conceptual frameworks of their mother tongue to represent an alien land and its yellowface aliens. Off-white or yellow-ish characters and their foreign-sounding speech are thus performed in Anglo-American fiction and visual culture; both yellowface and Chinglish are of, for, by the (white) people.Off-White interrogates seminal Anglo-American fiction and film on off-white bodies and voices. It commences with one Nobel laureate, Pearl Buck, and ends with another, Kazuo Ishiguro, almost a century later. The trajectory in between illustrates that the detective and mystery genres continue unabated their stock yellowface characters, who exude a magnetic field so powerful as to pull in Japanese anime. This universal drive to fashion a foil is ingrained in any will to power, so much so that even millennial China creates an off-yellow, darker-hued Orient in Huallywood films to silhouette its global ascent.
DAVID BIRD (Southampton, United Kingdom) is the most prolific bridge writer in the world. He has over 135 books to his credit and has won the American Bridge Teachers' Association Book of the Year award six times. David's essays appear in journals all around the world, including the ACBL Bridge Bulletin, BRIDGE Magazine, English Bridge, Australian Bridge, and others. He is married and has two grandchildren as well as a daughter and a son.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780071740173 |
| ISBN 10 | 0071740171 |
| Title | Improve Your Bridge |
| Author | David Bird |
| Series | Teach Yourself: Games Hobbies Sports |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Mcgraw-Hill |
| Year published | 2010-07-09 |
| Number of pages | 219 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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