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Narrating race. : Asia, (Trans) nationalism, social change /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Editions Rodopi,
2011.
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| Colección: | Textxet. Studies in Comparative Literature, 64.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Writing Race and Asia-Pacific Mobilities
- Constructions and Contestations; 2 Vivan Sundaram's "Amrita": Towards a Style of the Body; 3 The Return of the Scientist: Essential Knowledge and Global Tribalism in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide and The Calcutta Chromosome; 4 Ethnicity and the Southeast Asian Diaspora in Li-Young Lee's The Winged Seed; 5 Narrating Race, Gender and Sexuality in R.K. Narayan's The Painter of Signs.
- 6 Chinese Ethnicity in Post-Reformation Indonesian Women's Fiction: A Comparative Study of TwoNovels by Ayu Utami and Dewi Lestari7 Resi(g)nifying the Chinese and Filipino in Cinematic Narratives; 8 Performing Ethnicity, Ethnicizing History: The Eurasians of Singapore in Rex Shelley's TheShrimp People; 9 Performing the Self: Race and Identity in Two Hong Kong English-Language Plays; 10 Border Crossing: Place, Identity and Dis/Location of the Self in Xu Xi's The Unwalled City; 11 Hybrid Brown Gaijin Is a "Distinguished Alien" 199in Sakoku Japan.
- 12 Ugly Americans and Little Brown Brothers: Spectacles of Identity in ContemporaryPhilippine Drama13 Disappearing Race: Normative Whiteness and Cultural Appropriation in Australian RefugeeNarratives; 14 Race in Asian Poetry in English: Ethnic, National and Cosmopolitan Representations; Notes on Contributors; Index.