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The essays in this collection acknowledge the rich Gothic tradition in Asian narratives that deal with themes of the fantastic, the macabre, and the spectral. Through close analyses of Asian works using the theoretical framework outlined by Gothic criticism, these essays seek to expand the notion of the Gothic to include several popular Asian works.
Broadly divided into essays on postcolonial Asian Gothic, Asian-American Gothic, and the Gothic writings of specific Asian nations, this volume covers a wide variety of Asian texts. The essays of Part One demonstrate the flexibility of Postcolonial Gothic literature in adopting divergent or even contradictory ideologies. Part Two evokes the Gothic as the theoretical framework from which to interrogate the writings of Asian-American authors Maxine Hong Kingston, Sky Lee, lě thi diem thuy and David Henry Hwang. Part Three studies the Gothic tradition in the national literatures of China, Japan, Korea, and Turkey.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Gothic Visage of Asian Narratives
Andrew Hock Soon Ng
Part I. Postcolonial Asian Gothic Literature
1. Naipaul, "Muslims" and the Living Dead
Wendy O'Shea-Meddour
2. "Where Meaning Collapses": Tunku Halim's Dark Demon Rising as Global Gothic
Glennis Byron
3. Ghosts of a Demolished Cityscape: Gothic Experiments in Singaporean Fiction
Tamara S. Wagner
4. Seeing Through the Evil Eye: Meiling Jin's Caribbean Counter-Gothic in Gifts from My Grandmother
Paula K. Sato
5. Encrypted Ancestries: Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and Its Uncanny Inheritances
Hilary Thompson
Part II. Asian American Gothic Literature
6. Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe: A Testimony of Incorporation
Nieves Pascual Soler
7. The Ghostly Rhetoric of Autobiography: Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior as American Gothic Narrative
Carol Mejia-LaPerle
8. The Asian-American Hyphen Goes Gothic: Ghosts and Doubles in Maxine Hong Kingston and lê thi diem thúy
Belinda Kong
9. Gothic Aesthetics of Entanglement and Endangerment in David Henry Hwang's The Sound of a Voice and The House of Sleeping Beauties
Kimberly Jew
Part III. The Gothic Tradition in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Turkish Literature
10. Reading Shi Zhecun's "Yaksha" Against the Shanghai Modern
Hongbing Zhang
11. "Disappearing with the Double:" Xu Xi's The Stone Window
Amy Lai
12. Asian Cell and Horror
Sheng-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 Plays
Ayse Didem Uslu
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