Asian Gothic

Essays on Literature, Film and Anime
Herausgeber: Ng, Andrew Hock Soon

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this collection acknowledge the rich Gothic tradition in Asian narratives that deal with themes of the fantastic, the macabre, and the spectral. Through close analyses of Asian works using the theoretical framework outlined by Gothic criticism, these essays seek to expand the notion of the Gothic to include several popular Asian works. Broadly divided into essays on postcolonial Asian Gothic, Asian-American Gothic, and the Gothic writings of specific Asian nations, this volume covers a wide variety of Asian texts. The essays of Part One demonstrate the flexibility of Postcolonial Gothic literature in adopting divergent or even contradictory ideologies. Part Two evokes the Gothic as the theoretical framework from which to interrogate the writings of Asian-American authors Maxine Hong Kingston, Sky Lee, lě thi diem thuy and David Henry Hwang. Part Three studies the Gothic tradition in the national literatures of China, Japan, Korea, and Turkey.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9780786433353
• ISBN-10: 0786433353
• Artikelnr.: 23306249

Autorenporträt

Andrew Hock Soon Ng is a lecturer on literature and film at Monash University in Malaysia. He is also the author of Dimensions of Monstrosity in Contemporary Narratives (Palgrave 2004) and Interrogating Interstices (Peter Lang 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction: The Gothic Visage of Asian Narratives
Andrew Hock Soon Ng     
Part I. Postcolonial Asian Gothic Literature
1. Naipaul, "Muslims" and the Living Dead
Wendy O'Shea-Meddour     
2. "Where Meaning Collapses": Tunku Halim's Dark Demon Rising as Global
Gothic
Glennis Byron     
3. Ghosts of a Demolished Cityscape: Gothic Experiments in Singaporean
Fiction
Tamara S. Wagner     
4. Seeing Through the Evil Eye: Meiling Jin's Caribbean Counter-Gothic in
Gifts from My Grandmother
Paula K. Sato     
5. Encrypted Ancestries: Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and Its
Uncanny Inheritances
Hilary Thompson     
Part II. Asian American Gothic Literature
6. Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe: A Testimony of Incorporation
Nieves Pascual Soler     
7. The Ghostly Rhetoric of Autobiography: Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman
Warrior as American Gothic Narrative
Carol Mejia-LaPerle     
8. The Asian-American Hyphen Goes Gothic: Ghosts and Doubles in Maxine Hong
Kingston and lê thi diem thúy
Belinda Kong     
9. Gothic Aesthetics of Entanglement and Endangerment in David Henry
Hwang's The Sound of a Voice and The House of Sleeping Beauties
Kimberly Jew     
Part III. The Gothic Tradition in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Turkish
Literature
10. Reading Shi Zhecun's "Yaksha" Against the Shanghai Modern
Hongbing Zhang     
11. "Disappearing with the Double:" Xu Xi's The Stone Window
Amy Lai     
12. Asian Cell and Horror
Sheng-mei Ma     
13. The Western Eastern: De-Coding Hybridity and CyberZen Gothic in
Vampire Hunter D (1985)
Wayne Stein and John Edgar Browning     
14. Grotesque and Gothic Comedy in Turkish Shadow Plays
Ayse Didem Uslu     
About the Contributors     
Index