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Literature, Memory, Hegemony

East/West Crossings

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  • © 2018

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Editors:
  1. Sharmani Patricia Gabriel

    1. Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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  2. Nicholas O. Pagan

    1. Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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  • Considers the concepts of 'East' and 'West' in terms of interpenetrating dynamic
  • Offers an interdisciplinary and international perspective on 'East' and 'West' as oppositional categories in the humanities and social sciences
  • Offers a new framework to consider the salient questions of cultural, ideological and geographical change in our societies

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction: East/West—What’s at Stake?

    • Sharmani Patricia Gabriel
    Pages 1-19

  3. Comparative and Cross-Cultural Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Liu Hsieh and Mark Turner: The Elucidation of Literary Minds

      • Nicholas O. Pagan
      Pages 23-36

    3. Crossing Frontiers: English Romanticism and Sufism as Literary Movements

      • Mustapha Bala Ruma
      Pages 37-54

  5. Immigration, “Race”, and Antinomies of Nation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. Identity and Mis/Identification: The Asylum Seeker in Roma Tearne’s The Swimmer

      • Sanghamitra Dalal
      Pages 93-113

    3. Korean/American Literary Images of Black Amerasians

      • Kun Jong Lee
      Pages 115-137

  6. Translating Memory and Subaltern History

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. Graphic Visions: Translating Chinese History Through Collaborative Graphic Autobiography

      • Jeffrey Mather
      Pages 141-158

    3. Memory, Empathy, and Narrative in Meena Kandasamy’s The Gypsy Goddess

      • Punyashree Panda
      Pages 159-175

    4. In Lieu of a Conclusion: East and West as Regions of Consciousness

      • Nicholas O. Pagan
      Pages 177-185

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 187-193
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About this book

This edited book considers the need for the continued dismantling of conceptual and cultural hegemonies of ‘East’ and ‘West’ in the humanities and social sciences. Cutting across a wide range of literature, film and art from different contexts and ages, this collection seeks out the interpenetrating dynamic between both terms. Highlighting the inherent instability of East and West as oppositional categories, it focuses on the ‘crossings’ between East and West and this nexus as a highly-charged arena of encounter and collision. Drawing from varied literary contexts ranging from Victorian literature to Chinese literature and modern European literature, the book covers a diverse range of subject matter, including material drawn from psychoanalytic and postcolonial theory and studies related to race, religion, diaspora, and gender, and investigates topical social and political issues —including terrorism, nationalism, citizenship, the refugee crisis, xenophobia and otherness. Offering a framework to consider the salient questions of cultural, ideological and geographical change in our societies, this book is a key read for those working within world literary studies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Sharmani Patricia Gabriel, Nicholas O. Pagan

About the editors

Sharmani Patricia Gabriel is Professor and Head of the Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia.  She researches and teaches primarily in the fields of postcolonial literary studies, with a particular interest in the cultural politics of identity and ideas of race, diaspora, migration and multiculturalism. She is Editor-in-Chief of SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English.


Nicholas O. Pagan is Visiting Professor at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. His research interests include literary theory and criticism, literature and philosophy, science, and spirituality. He has published on a number of literary theorists and also on the philosophy of mind, science, American literature, theatre studies, and film. He is currently working in the area of phenomenology, play, and literary minds. He is the author of Theory of Mind and Science Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).  




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