Alterities in Asia: Reflections on Identity and Regionalism

ISBN-13: 9780415587501 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 240 str.

Leong Yew;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

Investigates the politics of identity in Asia and explores how different groups of people inside and outside Asia have attempted to relate to the alterity of the places and cultures in the region through various modes (literary and filmic representation, scholarly knowledge). This book is of interest to anyone interested in critical Asian studies.

Spis treści

1. The Asian as Other, Leong Yew  2. The Transformation of Asian Regionalism and the Construction of Anticommunist Identity: The Discourse of ‘Asia’ in Early Cold War South Korea, Kim Ye-rim  3. Constructing an Alternative Regional Identity: Panchsheel and India–China Diplomacy at the Asian–African Conference 1955, Sally Percival Wood  4. Naming and locating Asia: Australian dilemmas in its regional identity, David Walker  5. Singapore, Southeast Asia and the Place of Orientalism, Leong Yew  6. Boutique Alterity: Southeast Asia’s Exotics Abroad and At Home, Tamara S. Wagner  7. Misreading Asia: A Survey of What Filipinos Read of Asia, Karina Bolasco  8. Inquiring into a Parallel Other: A Filipino Gazing Back at Thailand, Antonio P. Contreras  9. The Construction of ‘Indigenous Peoples’ in Cambodia, Ian G. Baird  10. Asian Hauntings: Horror Cinema, Global Capitalism and the Reconciliation of Alterity? Christopher SelvaRaj

O autorze

Leong Yew is Assistant Professor in the University Scholars Programme at the National University of Singapore.