Literature, Memory, Hegemony East/West Crossings /

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...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture.
Oriental literature.
Comparative literature.
Motion pictures.
ISBN:9789811090011
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Table of Contents:
  • INTRODUCTION
  • East/West: What's at Stake?
  • part i: COMPARATIVE AND CROSS-CULTURAL APPROACHES
  • "Liu Hsieh and Mark Turner: The Elucidation of Literary Minds"
  • "Crossing Frontiers: English Romanticism and Sufism as Literary Movements"
  • PART II: Transnational orient(ations) and EMPIRES
  • "'The Democracy of Art': Elizabeth Keith and the Aesthetic of the Eastern Ordinary"
  • "From Victorian England to Colonial Korea: Desire and Subversion in Chan-wook Park's Ah-ga-ssi (The Handmaiden)"
  • PART iII: Immigration, "RACE", AND Antinomies of NATION
  • "Identity and Mis/Identification: The Asylum Seeker in Roma Tearne's The Swimmer"
  • "Korean/American Literary Images of Black Amerasians"
  • part iV: TRANSLATING MEMORY and SUBALTERN HISTORy
  • "Graphic Visions: Translating Chinese History through Collaborative Graphic Autobiography"
  • "Memory, Empathy, and Narrative in Meena Kandasamy's The Gypsy Goddess"
  • Conclusion
  • "In Lieu of a Conclusion: East and West as Regions of Consciousness".

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