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Acknowledging the significance of Edward Said’s Orientalism for
contemporary discourse, the contributors to this volume
deconstruct, rearrange, and challenge elements of his thesis,
looking at the new conditions and opportunities offered by
globalization. What can a renewed or reconceptualized Orientalism
teach us about the force and limits of our racial imaginary,
specifically in relation to various national contexts? In what
ways, for example, considering our greater cross-cultural
interaction, have clichés and stereotypes undergone a
metamorphosis in contemporary societies and cultures?
Theoretically, and empirically, this book offers an expansive range
of contexts, comprising the insights, analytical positions, and
perspectives of a transnational team of scholars of comparative
literature and literary and cultural studies based in Australia,
Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, USA, Singapore, Taiwan, and Turkey.
Working with, through and beyond Orientalism, they examine a
variety of cultural texts, including the novel, short story,
poetry, film, graphic memoir, social thought, and life writing.
Making connections across centuries and continents, they articulate
cultural representation and discourse through multiple approaches
including critical content analysis, historical contextualization,
postcolonial theory, gender theory, performativity,
intertextuality, and intersectionality. Given its unique approach,
this book will be essential reading for scholars of literary
theory, film studies and Asian studies, as well as for those with a
general interest in postcolonial literature and film.
Acknowledging the significance of Edward Said's Orientalism for
contemporary discourse, the contributors to this volume
deconstruct, rearrange, and challenge elements of his thesis,
looking at the new conditions and opportunities offered by
globalization. What can a renewed or reconceptualized Orientalism
teach us about the force and limits of our racial imaginary,
specifically in relation to various national contexts? In what
ways, for example, considering our greater cross-cultural
interaction, have cliches and stereotypes undergone a metamorphosis
in contemporary societies and cultures? Theoretically, and
empirically, this book offers an expansive range of contexts,
comprising the insights, analytical positions, and perspectives of
a transnational team of scholars of comparative literature and
literary and cultural studies based in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan,
Malaysia, USA, Singapore, Taiwan, and Turkey. Working with, through
and beyond Orientalism, they examine a variety of cultural texts,
including the novel, short story, poetry, film, graphic memoir,
social thought, and life writing. Making connections across
centuries and continents, they articulate cultural representation
and discourse through multiple approaches including critical
content analysis, historical contextualization, postcolonial
theory, gender theory, performativity, intertextuality, and
intersectionality. Given its unique approach, this book will be
essential reading for scholars of literary theory, film studies and
Asian studies, as well as for those with a general interest in
postcolonial literature and film.
This volume provides a key analysis of Asian children's literature
and film and creates a dialogue between East and West and between
the cultures from which they emerge, within the complex symbiosis
of their local, national and transnational frameworks. In terms of
location and content the book embraces a broad scope, including
contributions related to the Asian-American diaspora, China, India,
Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea, Sri
Lanka, and Taiwan. Individually and collectively, these essays
broach crucial questions: What elements of Asian literature and
film make them distinctive, both within their own specific culture
and within the broader Asian area? What aspects link them to these
genres in other parts of the world? How have they represented and
shaped the societies and cultures they inhabit? What moral codes do
they address, underpin, or contest? The volume provides further
voice to the increasingly diverse and fascinating output of the
region and emphasises the importance of Asian art forms as
depictions of specific cultures but also of their connection to
broader themes in children's texts, and scholarship within this
field.
This edited book considers the need for the continued dismantling
of conceptual and cultural hegemonies of 'East' and 'West' in the
humanities and social sciences. Cutting across a wide range of
literature, film and art from different contexts and ages, this
collection seeks out the interpenetrating dynamic between both
terms. Highlighting the inherent instability of East and West as
oppositional categories, it focuses on the 'crossings' between East
and West and this nexus as a highly-charged arena of encounter and
collision. Drawing from varied literary contexts ranging from
Victorian literature to Chinese literature and modern European
literature, the book covers a diverse range of subject matter,
including material drawn from psychoanalytic and postcolonial
theory and studies related to race, religion, diaspora, and gender,
and investigates topical social and political issues -including
terrorism, nationalism, citizenship, the refugee crisis, xenophobia
and otherness. Offering a framework to consider the salient
questions of cultural, ideological and geographical change in our
societies, this book is a key read for those working within world
literary studies.
This edited book considers the need for the continued dismantling
of conceptual and cultural hegemonies of 'East' and 'West' in the
humanities and social sciences. Cutting across a wide range of
literature, film and art from different contexts and ages, this
collection seeks out the interpenetrating dynamic between both
terms. Highlighting the inherent instability of East and West as
oppositional categories, it focuses on the 'crossings' between East
and West and this nexus as a highly-charged arena of encounter and
collision. Drawing from varied literary contexts ranging from
Victorian literature to Chinese literature and modern European
literature, the book covers a diverse range of subject matter,
including material drawn from psychoanalytic and postcolonial
theory and studies related to race, religion, diaspora, and gender,
and investigates topical social and political issues -including
terrorism, nationalism, citizenship, the refugee crisis, xenophobia
and otherness. Offering a framework to consider the salient
questions of cultural, ideological and geographical change in our
societies, this book is a key read for those working within world
literary studies.
This book offers a scholarly perspective on heritage as a
discourse, concept and lived experience in Malaysia. It argues that
heritage is not a received narrative but a construct in the making.
Starting with alternative ways of "museumising" heritage, the book
then addresses a broad range of issues involving multicultural and
folklore heritage, the small town, nostalgia and the environment,
and transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. In so doing it delivers
an intervention in received ways of talking about and "doing"
heritage in academic as well as state and public discourse in
Malaysia, which are largely dominated by perspectives that do not
sufficiently engage with the cultural complexities and
sociopolitical implications of heritage. The book also critically
explores the politics and dynamics of heritage production in
Malaysia to contest "Malaysian heritage" as a stable narrative,
exploring both its cogency and contingency, and builds on a deep
engagement with a non-western society in the service of
"provincialising" critical heritage studies, with the broader goal
of contributing to Malaysian studies.
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