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).

• 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

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