Overview
- Presents the term “Sino-Anglo” over “China-US” to articulate the connection between cultures codified by language rather than nation
- Pushes against existing disciplines of Area and American Studies as well as Euro-centric comparative literature to offer a thorough analysis of the tensions that simultaneously bind and separate disciplines
- The latest volume from one of the leading scholars of the cultural connections between the Global East and West
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Sino . . .
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Sheng-mei Ma is Professor of English at Michigan State University, USA, specializing in Asian Diaspora and East-West comparative studies. His books in English include: The Last Isle (2015); Alienglish (2014); Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity (2012); Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture (2011); East-West Montage (2007); The Deathly Embrace (2000); and Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures (1998).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sinophone-Anglophone Cultural Duet
Authors: Sheng-mei Ma
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58033-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58032-6Published: 07 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86306-1Published: 04 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58033-3Published: 26 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 240
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian Culture, Global/International Culture, American Culture, Popular Culture , Asian Literature, Asian Cinema and TV