Translational Politics in Southeast Asian Literatures: Contesting Race, Gender, and Sexuality

ISBN-13: 9780367470234 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 200 str.

Grace V. S. Chin

Opis

Highlighting the interconnections between Southeast Asia and the world through literature, this book calls for a different reading approach to the literatures of Southeast Asia by using translation as the main conceptual framework in the analyses and interpretation of texts, languages, and cultures.

Spis treści

1. Introduction Grace V.S. Chin  2. Self-Conscious and Queer: Translating the Pasts of Singapore and Malaysia in Lydia Kwa’s This Place Called Absence and Tan Twan Eng’s The Gift of Rain Angelia Poon  3. Performance and Translation: Hang Li Po and the Politics of History Grace V.S. Chin  4. Were-Tigers in Were-Texts: Cultural Translation and Indigeneity in the Malay Archipelago Nazry Bahrawi  5. Translating the Ideal Girl: Female Images in Khmer Literature and Cinema Daria Okhvat  6. Gained in Translation: The Politics of Localising Western Stories in Late-Colonial Indonesia Tom Hoogervorst  7. Translating Islam: Conversion and Love in Bruneian Fiction Kathrina Mohd Daud  8. Cinematic Erasure: Translating Southeast / Asia in Crazy Rich Asians Kelly Yin Nga Tse  9. Translation and LGBT Studies in the Philippines J. Neil C. Garcia