Narrating race : Asia, (trans)nationalism, social change

Author(s)

• Goh, Robbie B. H.

Bibliographic Information

Narrating race : Asia, (trans)nationalism, social change

edited by Robbie B.H. Goh

（Textxet : studies in comparative literature, 64）

Rodopi, 2011

Other Title

Narrating race : Asia, transnationalism, social change

Note

"This volume arose out of a conference entitled 'Narrating Race Between Nationalisms and Globalization' hosted by the Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore in Singapore in July 2006 ..."--P. [vii]

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The essays in this volume deal with the complexities of race in the Asia-Pacific context. Social tensions concerning race and ethnicity continue to pose profound challenges to Asia-Pacific countries in various stages of development and modernisation. Issues such as social justice, identity-formation, marginalisation and alienation, gender and related issues, are inevitably implicated in the racial cultures of Asia, and where Asian diasporic communities develop. The essays in this volume explore the ways in which race-culture is reflected in literature and cultural texts (drama and performance, visual arts, film and television). Included in this volume are essays on Amitav Ghosh, Vivan Sundaram, Li-Young Lee, R. K. Narayan, Ayu Utami, Dewi Lestari, Rex Shelley, Xu Xi, Pico Iyer and others.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Robbie B.H. Goh: Introduction: Writing Race and Asia-Pacific Mobilities - Constructions and Contestations Tania Roy: Vivan Sundaram's "Amrita": Towards a Style of the Body Robbie B.H. Goh: The Return of the Scientist: Essential Knowledge and Global Tribalism in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide and The Calcutta Chromosome Walter S.H. Lim: Ethnicity and the Southeast Asian Diaspora in Li-Young Lee's The Winged Seed Chitra Sankaran: Narrating Race, Gender and Sexuality in R.K. Narayan's The Painter of Signs Harry Aveling: Chinese Ethnicity in Post-Reformation Indonesian Women's Fiction: A Comparative Study of Two Novels by Ayu Utami and Dewi Lestari Caroline S. Hau: Resi(g)nifying the Chinese and Filipino in Cinematic Narratives Lily Rose Tope: Performing Ethnicity, Ethnicizing History: The Eurasians of Singapore in Rex Shelley's The Shrimp People Kwok-Kan Tam: Performing the Self: Race and Identity in Two Hong Kong English-Language Plays Terry Siu-Han Yip: Border Crossing: Place, Identity and Dis/Location of the Self in Xu Xi's The Unwalled City Julie Mehta: Hybrid Brown Gaijin Is a "Distinguished Alien" in Sakoku Japan Judy Celine Ick: Ugly Americans and Little Brown Brothers: Spectacles of Identity in Contemporary Philippine Drama Wenche Ommundsen: Disappearing Race: Normative Whiteness and Cultural Appropriation in Australian Refugee Narratives Agnes S.L. Lam: Race in Asian Poetry in English: Ethnic, National and Cosmopolitan Representations Notes on Contributors Index

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Details

• NCID: BB10181660
• ISBN:
  • 9789042034242
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Amsterdam
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 283 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN56.R16
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Race in literature -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Ethnicity in literature -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Oriental literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Pacific Area -- Race relations -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA25187084