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Interactions: Essays on Literature and Culture in the Asia-Pacific

By Various contributors

Interactions: Essays on Literature and Culture in the Asia-Pacific
AUS $32.95
  • Publisher: The Westerly Centre
  • Editor: Dennis Haskell, Ron Shapiro
  • ISBN: 978-1876268503
  • Published: January 1, 2000
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Interactions is a collection of essays celebrating cultural diversity in the Asia-Pacific region.

The subjects examined range from Australian-Vietnamese stand up comedy to New Guinea folk opera to Muslim perceptions of the evils of television and white Australians’ poems about Aborigines.

What the contributors share is a belief in the value of cultural interaction and the richness of writing that may emerge from it.

This book offers diverse maps of cross-cultural imagination.

Contents

Introduction  Dennis Haskell

Cultural identity in the global economy

Multiculturalism and the new world (dis)order  G. S. Jayasree
Sail the midnight sun: Cross-cultural, inter-cultural, or intra-cultural activity in the creation of a folk opera  Lynda Schulz
Shopping and cooking for the hybrid in the world waiting to be made  Mirian Lo
Expatriates and the question of home: Jill Ker Conway and Shirley Geok-lin Lim  Bruce Bennett
 The ocker ethnic: Reading Hung Le and cultural identity  Tseen-Ling Khoo
The power of time, or why Thailand makes me laugh  Mark Weeks

Gender and Sexuality

The Scheherezade motif in recent Australian fiction set in China and Southseas Asia  David Brooks
Postcolonial gothic: Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Hawai’i  Heather Neilson
Parallels of motivation and cultural context in the feminist poetry of Australia and India: A comparative analysis  Subhas Chandra Saha
“In the beat of my silences”: Representations of indigeneity, gender and sexuality in the writing of Leslie Marmon Silko and Jamice Slater-Herring  Angeline O’Neill
The evils of television: Some reflections on Shahnon Ahmad’s novel Tivi  Harry Aveling
Culture and play of desire in Merlinda Bobis’ Ms Serena Serenata and Beaut, Luv!  Bill Dunstone

Travel and initiation

Crossing the shadow lines  Silvia Albertazzi
Unstable communities: The village in the short stories of Pira Sudham  Andrew McRae
Lu Xun’s medical studies in Japan and his fiction: A deconstructive reading  Wong Yoon Wah
Madame Izan, butterflies and the incomprehensible Japanese  Megumi Kato
“They couldn’t tell us how to farm their skin”: White poems on black dispossession  Geoff Page
Singapore and the two Ulysses  Rajeev S. Patke

Series: Literary Scholarship

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