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Sinophone-Anglophone cultural duet / Sheng-mei Ma.
Author
Ma, Sheng-mei
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Language
English
Published/Created
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
©2017
Description
xvii, 240 pages ; 22 cm
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East Asian Library - Western Languages
PL2274.2.E5 M3 2017
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Comparative literature
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Chinese and American
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Comparative literature
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American and Chinese
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Chinese literature
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History and criticism
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English literature
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History and criticism
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Summary note
This book examines the paradox of China and the United States' literary and visual relationships, morphing between a happy duet and a contentious duel in fiction, film, poetry, comics, and opera from both sides of the Pacific. In the 21st century where tension between the two superpowers escalates, a gaping lacuna lies in the cultural sphere of Sino-Anglo comparative cultures. By focusing on a "Sinophone-Anglophone" relationship rather than a "China-US" one, Sheng-mei Ma eschews realpolitik, focusing on the two languages and the cross-cultural spheres where, contrary to Kipling's twain, East and West forever meet, like a repetition compulsion bordering on neurosis over the self and its cultural other. Indeed, the coupling of the two--duet-cum-duel--is so predictable that each seems attracted to and repulsed by its dark half, semblable, (in)compatible for their shared larger-than-life-ness.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-233) and index.
Contents
1. Sino-Anglo-Euro Wolf Fan(g)s from Jiang Rong to Annaud
2. To Anglicize and Angelize the Rape of Nanking
3. Asiatic Aspie: Millennial (ab)Use of Asperger's Syndrome
4. Turandot: The Chinese Box by Puccini, Zeffirelli, Zhang, and Chen
5. Speaking (of the) Dragon: Slain by the West, Ridden by the East
6. Asian Inscrewtability in Hollywood
7. Gene Luen Yang's Graphic Bi-Bye to China/town
8. Asian Birthright and Anglo Bequest in Chang-rae Lee and Bich Minh Nguyen
9. On Sci-Fi's Good China, Bad China: Maureen F. McHugh and Chang-rae Lee
10. Fed (up) with Gyoza and Vodka: Oldboy's Forbidden Fruit of Alterity
11. Noodle Western: Asian Gunslingers, Swordplayers, Filmmakers Gone West
12. Millennial Taiwan Food Films: Naming and Epicurean Cure.
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ISBN
3319580329
9783319580326
9783319580333 ((e-book))
3319580337
LCCN
2017940343
OCLC
982564493
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