Asian Gothic

Essays on Literature, Film and Anime

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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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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Utgivningsdatum2008-02-04
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor252
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9780786433353

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Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Gothic Visage of Asian NarrativesAndrew Hock Soon Ng Part I. Postcolonial Asian Gothic Literature1. Naipaul, “Muslims” and the Living DeadWendy O’Shea-Meddour 2. “Where Meaning Collapses”: Tunku Halim’s Dark Demon Rising as Global GothicGlennis Byron 3. Ghosts of a Demolished Cityscape: Gothic Experiments in Singaporean FictionTamara S. Wagner 4. Seeing Through the Evil Eye: Meiling Jin’s Caribbean Counter-Gothic in Gifts from My GrandmotherPaula K. Sato 5. Encrypted Ancestries: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and Its Uncanny InheritancesHilary Thompson Part II. Asian American Gothic Literature6. Sky Lee’s Disappearing Moon Cafe: A Testimony of IncorporationNieves Pascual Soler 7. The Ghostly Rhetoric of Autobiography: Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior as American Gothic NarrativeCarol Mejia-LaPerle 8. The Asian-American Hyphen Goes Gothic: Ghosts and Doubles in Maxine Hong Kingston and lê thi diem thúyBelinda Kong 9. Gothic Aesthetics of Entanglement and Endangerment in David Henry Hwang’s The Sound of a Voice and The House of Sleeping BeautiesKimberly Jew Part III. The Gothic Tradition in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Turkish Literature10. Reading Shi Zhecun’s “Yaksha” Against the Shanghai ModernHongbing Zhang 11. “Disappearing with the Double:” Xu Xi’s The Stone WindowAmy Lai 12. Asian Cell and HorrorSheng-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 PlaysAyse Didem Uslu About the Contributors Index