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Trauma, Precarity and War Memories in Asian American Writings
Departing from Jacques Derrida’s appropriations of cinders as a trope of war atrocity aftermath, this book examines writings that deal with war...
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Trashy Tales and Tales of Trash (2016): The Making of Waste in Contemporary Malaysian Short Stories
Discard studies have brought increased critical attention to the roles of social, political and economic systems in the production and processing of...
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The Pauper Prince Translates Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Ken’ichi Yoshida and the Poetics/Politics of Post-war Japan
Author and literary critic Ken’ichi Yoshida (1912–1977) had a privileged, international upbringing. He enrolled at King’s College, Cambridge, to read...
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The War Complex and Us: The Representation of the Sino-Japanese War and Cosmopolitanism in Empire of the Sun, When We Were Orphans, and My Shanghai, 1942–1946
This chapter focuses its analysis on the representation of the Sino-Japanese war in J. G. Ballard’s Empire of the Sun, Ishiguro’s When We Were...
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The Vietnam War and Refugee Writings
This chapter examines the othering and liminal experiences of postwar Vietnamese-American communities through reading a 2010 novel by...
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Contemporary Women Writers and the Imagining of Postcolonial Nigeria
This chapter discusses contemporary women writers’ influence and impact in postcolonial Nigeria. In different ways, these women write to contradict...
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FROM WORLD WAR II TO THE PRESENT
On March 25, 1964, Adorno dreamt he had gathered a mob in order to kill a psychotherapist. This psychotherapist was about to give a lecture on...
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EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY UNTIL THE END OF WORLD WAR II
As heterogeneous as the various artistic avantgardes of the early twentieth century may be in their programmatic orientation, they are united in the...
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Introduction: Environment and Narrative in Vietnam
This essay provides a brief introduction to issues of environment, culture, and narrative in Vietnam as well as a survey of the other essays included...
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Traumatic Memory and Narrative Healing in Contemporary Diasporic Chinese British Women’s Writing
This chapter explores literary representations of traumatic (non-)motherhood experience in two Chinese British authors’ writings: Hong Ying’s...
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Cultural Diplomacy, Literature(s) in English and Creative Writing in Cold War Asia
The essay, by analyzing how Anglophone literature and creative writing programs were weapons of the cultural Cold War in Asia, demonstrates that they...
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Postcolonial and Global Neo-Victorianisms
The theoretical and practical twin interventions of Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s “Three Women’s Texts and a...
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Post-war to Post-truth: Reassessing the American Avant-Garde Canon
This chapter juxtaposes The New American Poetry with contemporary discussions about the exclusion of women and people of color in avant-garde poetry...
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The Secret Agent: Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism and Internationalism
Nostromo was written in response to recent and contemporary events, including the Spanish-American Warwar of 1898 and its aftermath. This engagement...
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Introduction
In this chapter, we establish the rationales and ways in which scholarship on modern and contemporary China–Italy exchanges can benefit from adopting...
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Yeats’s Reception in China: How Chinese May Fourth Writers Translated Yeats and the Irish Revival
This chapter assesses how Chinese May Fourth writers translated the Irish Revival and Yeatsian plays, poetry, and critical writings for various...
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Ecology in seventeenth-century Japan: the ‘Great Way’ of Kumazawa Banzan
The introduction glances at the historical background of seventeenth-century Japan and the role of Kumazawa Banzan. His views are then presented as a...
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Introduction. Counter-Narratives of History and Relational Fragmentation
This introduction maps out an archival turn in contemporary Caribbean cultural production, mostly taking place in literature and visual art, with...
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Translating the Literature of Marginalized Nations and the Construction of a National Culture in the People’s Republic of China
The founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was the first time in history that China had been consolidated as a country of independence and...
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“not safe any / where anymore”: Biopolitical Poetics and Irish Migration Poetry
While Irish literary culture has long been preoccupied with migration, the urgency of late-Anthropocene concerns with climate collapse and mass...