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

Narrating race : Asia, (trans)nationalism, social change / / edited by Robbie B.H. Goh.

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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...

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Superior document:Textxet
TeilnehmendeR:
Goh, Robbie B. H.
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Text (Rodopi (Firm))
Physical Description:1 online resource (283 pages) ;; illustrations
Notes:"This volume arose out of a conference entitled 'Narrating Race Between Nationalism and Globalization' hosted by the Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore in Singapore in July 2006 ..."--Page [vii].
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • introduction : writing race and Asia-Pacific mobilities – constructions and contestations / Robbie B.H. Goh
  • Vivan Sundaram’s “Amrita”: towards a style of the body / Tania Roy
  • the return of the scientist : essential knowledge and global tribalism in Amitav Ghosh’s the hungry tide and the Calcutta chromosome / Robbie B.H. Goh
  • Ethnicity and the Southeast Asian diaspora in Li-Young Lee’s The Winged Seed / Walter S.H. Lim
  • Narrating race, gender, and sexuality in R.K. Narayan’s The Painter Of Signs / Chitra Sankaran
  • Chinese ethnicity in post-reformation Indonesian women’s fiction : a comparative study of two novels by Ayu Utami and Dewi Lestari / Harry Aveling
  • Resi(g)nifying the Chinese and Filipino in cinematic narratives / Caroline S. Hau
  • Performing ethnicity, ethnicizing history : the Eurasians of Singapore In Rex Shelley’s The Shrimp People / Lily Rose Tope
  • Performing the self : race and identity in two Hong Kong English-language plays / Kwok-Kan Tam
  • Border crossing : place, identity and dis/location of the self in Xu Xi’s The Unwalled City / Terry Siu-Han Yip
  • Hybrid Brown Gaijin is a “distinguished alien” In Sakoku Japan / Julie Mehta
  • Ugly Americans and little brown brothers : spectacles of identity in contemporary Philippine drama / Judy Celine Ick
  • Disappearing race : normative whiteness and cultural appropriation in Australian refugee narratives / Wenche Ommundsen
  • Race in Asian poetry in English : ethnic, national and cosmopolitan representations / Agnes S.L. Lam
  • Notes on contributors
  • Index.

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