Eastern and Western synergies and imaginations : texts and histories /

"The age of globalization - or digital globalization, to be exact - has witnessed, and is witnessing, increasing activities across borders and interactions between nations, typically and especially between the East and the West. Such movement is heavily punctuated with events of expedition, tra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wong, Katrine K., 1980- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Series:East and West (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 8.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Katrine K. Wong
  • "A being ... from a different world" : Yung Wing and the making of a global subjectivity / Patricia P. Chu
  • Maritime links, imperialism, and diaspora in the Ibis trilogy / Shilpa Daithota Bhat
  • Utopia and history : Os Lusíadas (Camões) and Uma viagem à Índia (G. Tavares) / Helena Carvalhão Buescu
  • "Orientalism from within" in Goa : local textual production in light of the legal and administrative framework of the overseas populations / Everton V. Machado
  • Present absences : the East in the story of a port town on the western coast of the Black Sea / Onoriu Colăcel
  • Pragmatism and politics intertwined : the West, the East, the Suez Crisis, and inter/national hegemony in James Graham's Eden's empire / Önder Çakırtaş
  • A dog of Flanders : of triumphant heroes and heroic losers / Etienne Boumans
  • Yeats, Nōh theatre, and the traditions of Asia / Matthew Gibson
  • David Henry Hwang's Yellow face in postracial times / Keith Appler
  • Imagining Robert Wilson's The three ladies of London in Macao / Katrine K. Wong.