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Autore: | Ma Sheng-mei |
Titolo: | Sinophone-Anglophone Cultural Duet [[electronic resource] /] / by Sheng-mei Ma |
Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. 2017. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (XVII, 240 p. 2 illus.) |
Disciplina: | 306.095 |
Soggetto topico: | Ethnology—Asia |
Culture | |
United States—Study and teaching | |
Popular Culture | |
Oriental literature | |
Motion pictures—Asia | |
Asian Culture | |
Global/International Culture | |
American Culture | |
Asian Literature | |
Asian Cinema and TV | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 1. Sino-Anglo-Euro Wolf Fan(g)s from Jiang Rong to Annaud -- 2. To Anglicize and Angelize the Rape of Nanking -- 3. Asiatic Aspie: Millennial (ab)Use of Asperger’s Syndrome -- 4. Turandot: The Chinese Box by Puccini, Zeffirelli, Zhang, and Chen -- 5. Speaking (of the) Dragon: Slain by the West, Ridden by the East -- 6. Asian Inscrewtability in Hollywood -- 7. Gene Luen Yang’s Graphic Bi-Bye to China/town -- 8. Asian Birthright and Anglo Bequest in Chang-rae Lee and Bich Minh Nguyen -- 9. On Sci-Fi’s Good China, Bad China: Maureen F. McHugh and Chang-rae Lee -- 10. Fed (up) with Gyoza and Vodka: Oldboy’s Forbidden Fruit of Alterity -- 11. Noodle Western: Asian Gunslingers, Swordplayers, Filmmakers Gone West -- 12. Millennial Taiwan Food Films: Naming and Epicurean Cure. |
Sommario/riassunto: | This book examines the paradox of China and the United States’ literary and visual relationships, morphing between a happy duet and a contentious duel in fiction, film, poetry, comics, and opera from both sides of the Pacific. In the 21st century where tension between the two superpowers escalates, a gaping lacuna lies in the cultural sphere of Sino-Anglo comparative cultures. By focusing on a “Sinophone-Anglophone” relationship rather than a “China-US” one, Sheng-mei Ma eschews realpolitik, focusing on the two languages and the cross-cultural spheres where, contrary to Kipling’s twain, East and West forever meet, like a repetition compulsion bordering on neurosis over the self and its cultural other. Indeed, the coupling of the two—duet-cum-duel—is so predictable that each seems attracted to and repulsed by its dark half, semblable, (in)compatible for their shared larger-than-life-ness. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Sinophone-Anglophone Cultural Duet |
ISBN: | 3-319-58033-7 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910255062603321 |
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