Undercurrents : queer culture and postcolonial Hong Kong
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Undercurrents : queer culture and postcolonial Hong Kong
（Sexuality studies series）
UBC Press, c2008
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [135]-143
Filmography: p. [144]-145
Discography: p. [146]
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Undercurrents engages the critical rubric of "queer" to examine Hong Kong's screen and media culture during the transitional and immediate postcolonial period. Helen Hok-Sze Leung draws on theoretical insights from a range of disciplines to reveal parallels between the crisis and uncertainty of the territory's postcolonial transition and the queer aspects of its cultural productions. She explores Hong Kong cultural productions - cinema, fiction, popular music, and subcultural projects - and argues that while there is no overt consolidation of gay and lesbian identities in Hong Kong culture, undercurrents of diverse and complex expressions of gender and sexual variance are widely in evidence. Undercurrents uncovers a queer media culture that has been largely overlooked by critics in the West and demonstrates the cultural vitality of Hong Kong amidst political transition.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1 Sex and the Postcolonial City
2 Between Girls
3 Trans Formations
4 In Queer Memory
5 Do It Yourself
Notes
Bibliography
Filmography
Discography
Index
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