Spectacle ethnography and immigrant resistance: Sui Sin Far and Anzia Yezierska.
From: MELUS
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Date: 3/22/2002
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Author: Jirousek, Lori
In 1850, "Barnum's Chinese Museum" featured a live Chinese family on display for American amusement. Newspaper reviews marveled that Barnum's "stops short of nothing that is strange or wonderful" with its "genuine Chinese lady ... prepared to exhibit her charming self, her curious retinue, and her fairy feet (only two and a half inches long) to an admiring and novelty-loving public" (qtd. in Yung 14, 17). Capitalizing on the market appeal of the ethnic Other, Barnum's presented the ...
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