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The twenty-seven essays in this volume are the product of the Ninth Biennial Symposium on the Literatures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region held in Singapore in December 1999. The contributions explore complicitous interactions between cultures, nations and people in the Asia-Pacific Region. Grouped into the three sections of "Asia-Pacific Relations", "The Politics of Identity" and "Language, Gender and Empowerment", these essays examine selected texts from countries which include Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and Micronesia.

Produktbeschreibung
The twenty-seven essays in this volume are the product of the Ninth Biennial Symposium on the Literatures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region held in Singapore in December 1999. The contributions explore complicitous interactions between cultures, nations and people in the Asia-Pacific Region. Grouped into the three sections of "Asia-Pacific Relations", "The Politics of Identity" and "Language, Gender and Empowerment", these essays examine selected texts from countries which include Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and Micronesia.
Autorenporträt
The Editors: Chitra Sankaran is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of English Language & Literature, National University of Singapore. She is a member of The Editorial Committee of SINGA ¿ Singapore Journal of the Arts and is an Assistant Director of The Centre for the Arts, National University of Singapore. Liew-Geok Leong is an Affiliate at the Department of English Language & Literature, National University of Singapore. She is presently completing a book on the Literature in English of the Pacific War in Malaysia and Singapore, and working on Passions, her third collection of poems. Rajeev S. Patke was educated at the University of Poona and Oxford, and is an Associate Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore. He is currently working on a book which develops Asian extrapolations from the writings of Walter Benjamin.