The West in Asia and Asia in the West : essays on transnational interactions / edited by Elisabetta Marino and Tanfer Emin Tunc.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marino, Elisabetta, editor.

Emin-Tunc, Tanfer, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East and West in literature.

Comparative literature--Oriental and Western.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--Western and Oriental.

Literature and transnationalism.

Orientalism in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 262 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]

Summary:

This collection of new essays examines the "transnational turn" in cultural studies between Asia and the West. Drawing on literature, history, culture, film and media studies, scholars from a range of disciplines explore the constructs of "Asia" and "the West" and their cultural collision. Topics include the relationship between European and American writers and Asia, western travelers to the East and eastern travelers to the West, transnational historic figures, the deconstruction of Orientalism, new critical perspectives in transnational studies, the immigrant experience in literature, post-colonial studies, and teaching "the West" in Asia and "Asia" in the West. Book jacket.

Contents:

"Out of the Authority of the Arabians": Orientalism and Utopian Intellectual History in Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy / Dan Mills Mills, Dan 5

The West in Afghanistan: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Colonial Ambassadors, Soldiers, and Adventurers in a Racialized "Free" Land / Zubeda Jalalzai Jalalzai, Zubeda 20

Constructing the Other, Reconstructing Herself: A Journey Through the Crimea to Constantinople by Lady Elizabeth Craven / Elisabetta Marino Marino, Elisabetta 34

History from the Middle: The Student-Interpreters Corps and the United States' Understanding of Asia, 1902-1941 / Nathaniel A. Davis Davis, Nathaniel A. 46

The Construction of a Transnational Feminist: Latife Hanim in the American Press, 1923-1925 / Tanfer Emin Tunc Tunc, Tanfer Emin 60

The West in Italy/Italy in the West: Italian American Women Writers and the Ethnic Heroine / Theodora D. Patrona Patrona, Theodora D. 79

Placing Ha Jin: The Crazed and Nanjing Requiem / Clara Juncker Juncker, Clara 92

"Barbarians" in the "Promised Land": Mona and Sterling in the City / Ctiscina Cheveresan Cheveresan, Ctiscina 106

A Courtesan as the "Patron Goddess of the Nation": The Politics of an East-West Love Affair / Guo-ou Zhuang Zhuang, Guo-ou 122

A Chinese Swinburne: Shao Xunmei's Life and Art / Jicheng Sun Sun, Jicheng, Harold Swindall Swindall, Harold 133

Chinese Hopping Vampires: Reconstructing a Western Tradition in Hong Kong Cinema / Jessica Hughes Hughes, Jessica 146

Demystifying Said: Orientalism, Occidentalism, and Self-Orientalization as Paradigms of Power in David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet / Jeroen Vermeulen Vermeulen, Jeroen 158

From Quest to Conquest: The Construction of the "East" in Angela Carter / Vrinda R. Chanth Chanth, Vrinda R. 169

The Cosmopolitan Exile: The Dilemmas of Younghill Kang / Stephen Joyce Joyce, Stephen 179

Asian Art for U.S. College Museums: Two Pioneering Collectors, Charles Freer and Dwight Tryon / Fan Jeremy Zhang Zhang, Fan Jeremy 192

Return of the "Native": Tales of Viet Nam in Viet Kieu (Overseas Vietnamese) Memoirs and Narratives / Nina Ha Ha, Nina 203

"Full-Circle" Around the Earth: Movement and the Cinematic in Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial / Tienfong Ho Ho, Tienfong 214

The Literature of Vietnam in Vietnam; An Undergraduate Engaged Learning Program / Alex Vernon Vernon, Alex 224

Searching for Homo Religiosus with Mircea Eliade in India / Mihaela Gligor Gligor, Mihaela 235

Marriage Ties: Cross-Cultural Existence in Three Indian English Films / Rituparna Das Das, Rituparna 244.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780786494736

0786494735

OCLC:

890510314