Voices in the Heart: Postcolonialism and Identity in Hong Kong Literature

ISBN-13: 9783631515877 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 164 str.

Brian Hooper

Opis

The author undertakes the task of examining a large body of literature produced in Hong Kong to show it as an integral part of the universal human heritage. This thematic study of contemporary Hong Kong anglophone literature identifies a series of themes and motifs that can be drawn upon both as figures for an authentically -Hong Kong- criticism and as lenses through which to read, contextualize, and interpret the texts that constitute this canon of fiction, autobiography, drama, and poetry. Focusing on three central texts Patrick Acheson s intricately-wrought and provocative Flagrant Harbour, Lee Ding Fai s rags-to-riches story Running Dog, and Timothy Mo s The Monkey King Hooper offers a theoretical structure for analyzing the postcolonial phenomena in the Hong Kong context. This book includes an exhaustive bibliography of Hong Kong literature."

Spis treści

Contents: Hong Kong anglophone Literature - The Matrix and Fusion in Hong Kong anglophone Literature - The Matrix and its Malcontents in Patrick Acheson's Flagrant Harbour - Lee Ding Fai's Running Dog - Timothy Mo's Signifying Monkey King - Bibliography.

O autorze

The Author: Brian Hooper received his B.A. in American Studies from Washington & Lee University and his M.Phil. in Literary Studies from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a recent graduate of the Harvard Law School, where he was Executive Editor and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy.