Translational Politics in Southeast Asian Literatures (eBook, PDF)

Contesting Race, Gender, and Sexuality
Redaktion: Chin, Grace V. S.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Highlighting the interconnections between Southeast Asia and the world through literature, this book calls for a different reading approach to the literatures of Southeast Asia by using translation as the main conceptual framework in the analyses and interpretation of texts, languages, and cultures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000363180
• Artikelnr.: 60954900

Autorenporträt

Grace V. S. Chin is Senior Lecturer in English Language Studies at Universiti Sains Malaysia. She specialises in postcolonial Southeast Asian literatures in English and has published journal articles and essays on writers and literary works from Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Her publications also include two co-edited volumes: The Southeast Asian Woman Writes Back: Gender, Identity, and Nation in the Literatures of Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines (2018) and Appropriating Kartini: Colonial, National and Transnational Memories of an Indonesian Icon (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Grace V.S. Chin 2. Self-Conscious and Queer: Translating
the Pasts of Singapore and Malaysia in Lydia Kwa's This Place Called
Absence and Tan Twan Eng's The Gift of Rain Angelia Poon 3. Performance and
Translation: Hang Li Po and the Politics of History Grace V.S. Chin 4.
Were-Tigers in Were-Texts: Cultural Translation and Indigeneity in the
Malay Archipelago Nazry Bahrawi 5. Translating the Ideal Girl: Female
Images in Khmer Literature and Cinema Daria Okhvat 6. Gained in
Translation: The Politics of Localising Western Stories in Late-Colonial
Indonesia Tom Hoogervorst 7. Translating Islam: Conversion and Love in
Bruneian Fiction Kathrina Mohd Daud 8. Cinematic Erasure: Translating
Southeast / Asia in Crazy Rich Asians Kelly Yin Nga Tse 9. Translation and
LGBT Studies in the Philippines J. Neil C. Garcia