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Asia and the Historical Imagination

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Editors:
  1. Jane Yeang Chui Wong

    1. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

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  • Explores the links between non-fictional and fictional narratives to reinforce the specificities of locations, ethnicities, and experiences in a post-colonial world.

  • Provides an alternative framework for the study of world literature

  • Offers literary representations of large superpowers like China and the Indian continent to smaller and newer independent states like Singapore

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Asia’s Other History

    • Jane Yeang Chui Wong
    Pages 1-15

  3. Can One Speak of the September 30th Movement? The Power of Silence in Indonesian Literature

    • Kit Ying Lye
    Pages 17-40

  4. Cultural Encounters and Imagining Multicultural Identities in Two Taiwanese Historical Novels

    • I-Chun Wang
    Pages 41-57

  5. Fate or State: The Double Life of a Composite Chinese Spy in A Map of Betrayal

    • King-Kok Cheung
    Pages 59-84

  6. Contesting Chineseness in Vyvyane Loh’s Breaking the Tongue

    • Jane Yeang Chui Wong
    Pages 85-108

  7. The Female Body as the Site of Historical Controversy: Ghostly Reappearance in South Korean Historical Fiction

    • Hyunjung Lee
    Pages 109-126

  8. Cosmopolitan Retellings and the Idea of the Local: The Case of Salman Rushdie’s Shame

    • Divya Mehta
    Pages 127-154

  9. Connections, Contact, and Community in the Southeast Asian Past: Teaching Transnational History Through Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace

    • Maitrii Aung-Thwin
    Pages 155-179

  10. “Until It Lives in Our Hands and in Our Eyes, and It’s Ours”: Rewriting Historical Fiction and The Hungry Tide

    • Sarottama Majumdar
    Pages 181-199

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 201-229
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About this book

This collection explores the interpretation of historical fiction through fictional representations of the past in an Asian context. Emphasising the significance of region and locality, it explores local networks of political and cultural exchanges at the heart of an Asian polity. The book considers how imagined pasts converge and diverge in developed and developing nations, and examines the limitations of representation at a time when theories of world literature are shaping the way we interpret global histories and cultures. The collection calls attention to the importance of acknowledging local tensions—both within the historical and cultural make-up of a country, and within the Asian continent—in the interpretation of historical fiction. It emphasizes a broad-spectrum view that privileges the shared historical experiences of a group of countries in close proximity, and it also responds to the paradigm shift in Asian Studies. Discussing how local conditions shape and create expectations of how we read historical fiction and working with the theme of fictionality and locality, the volume provides an alternative framework for the study of world literature.




Editors and Affiliations

  • Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Jane Yeang Chui Wong

About the editor

Jane Yeang Chui Wong is Assistant Professor of English at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research and teaching interests include Renaissance literature and historiography, Asian fiction in English, and modern drama. Her research in modern drama also extends to 20th British drama. In 2013, she published Affirming the Absurd in Harold Pinter (Palgrave). Her contributions to modern drama can also be found in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, and Modern Language Review, TDR: The Drama Review, and Theatre Research International.  





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