Asia and the Historical Imagination

This collection explores the interpretation of historical fiction through fictional representations of the past in an Asian context. Emphasising the significance of region and locality, it explores local networks of political and cultural exchanges at the heart of an Asian polity. The book considers...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (-)
Otros Autores: Wong, Jane Yeang Chui, editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan 2018.
Colección:Springer eBooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Can One Speak of the September 30th Movement? The Power of Silence in Indonesian Literature
  • Cultural Encounters and Imagining Multi-cultural Identities in Two Taiwanese Historical Novels
  • Fate or State: The Double Life of a Composite Chinese Spy in A Map of Betrayal
  • Contesting Chineseness in Vyvyane Loh's Breaking the Tongue
  • Female Body as the Site of Historical Controversy: Ghostly Reappearance in South Korean Historical Fiction
  • Cosmopolitan Retellings and the Idea of the Local: The Case of Salman Rushdie's Shame
  • Connections, Contact, and Community in the Southeast Asian Past: Teaching Transnational History through Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace
  • zUntil it lives in our hands and in our eyes, and it's oursy: Rewriting Historical Fiction and The Hungry Tide
  • Coda.