Narrating Race: Asia, (Trans)Nationalism, Social Change

Narrating Race: Asia, (Trans)Nationalism, Social Change
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: Writing Race and Asia-Pacific Mobilities – Constructions and Contestations
2 Vivan Sundaram’s “Amrita”: Towards a Style of the Body
3 The Return of the Scientist: Essential Knowledge and Global Tribalism in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and The Calcutta Chromosome
4 Ethnicity and the Southeast Asian Diaspora in Li-Young Lee’s The Winged Seed
5 Narrating Race, Gender and Sexuality in R.K. Narayan’s The Painter of Signs
6 Chinese Ethnicity in Post-Reformation Indonesian Women’s Fiction: A Comparative Study of Two Novels by Ayu Utami and Dewi Lestari
7 Resi(g)nifying the Chinese and Filipino in Cinematic Narratives
8 Performing Ethnicity, Ethnicizing History: The Eurasians of Singapore in Rex Shelley’s The Shrimp People
9 Performing the Self: Race and Identity in Two Hong Kong English-Language Plays
10 Border Crossing: Place, Identity and Dis/Location of the Self in Xu Xi’s The Unwalled City
11 Hybrid Brown Gaijin Is a “Distinguished Alien” in Sakoku Japan
12 Ugly Americans and Little Brown Brothers: Spectacles of Identity in Contemporary
Philippine Drama
13 Disappearing Race: Normative Whiteness and Cultural Appropriation in Australian Refugee
Narratives
14 Race in Asian Poetry in English: Ethnic, National and Cosmopolitan Representations
Notes on Contributors
Index