Overview
- Assesses local, regional, and global influences on the changing parameters of the Asian family
- Deconstructs representations of family from Asian and intercultural perspectives
- Explores the links between text, film and media in depictions of Asian families
Part of the book series: Asia-Pacific and Literature in English (APLE)
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Keywords
- Asian Diaspora
- Asian Studies
- Children’s Literature
- Cultural Studies
- Education
- Family
- Film
- Gender
- Literature
- Media Studies
- Multiculturalism
- Queer Theory
- Social Change
- Social Diversity
- Television
- Tradition
- Transgender
- Trauma
- Young Adult Fiction
About this book
This book investigates the ways in which the family unit is now perceived in South and Southeast Asia and the Asian diaspora: its numerous conceptions and the changes it has undergone over the last century and into the new one. The prevailing threads that run through a significant part of the literature and cinema emerging from these societies are the challenges that confront those negotiating changing forms of family, changes which are expressed historically, politically, and socio-culturally, and often in relation to gender, ethnic, or economic imbalances. Though regional and localized in many ways, they are also very much universal in the questions they ask, the lessons they teach, and the connections they make. Theoretically, and in terms of focus, the collection offers a broad range, embracing representation and analysis from scholars across the globe and across disciplines. It assembles written and visual texts from and about India, Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, Singapore, and the Asian diaspora. How have more fluid concepts of family in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries affected the understanding of family in Asia? How have families in Asia resisted or embraced change? How have they responded to trauma? What do other readings—gendered, feminist, queer, and diasporic—bring to modern debates surrounding family? To what extent are notions of family, community, society, and nation represented as interchangeable concepts in Asian societies? This book questions the power dynamics, ethical considerations, and moral imperatives that underpin families and societies within, and beyond, Asian borders.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bernard Wilson is a Professor (adjunct) at the Department of English Language and Cultures, Faculty of Letters, Gakushuin University, Tokyo.
Sharifah Aishah Osman is Senior Lecturer at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Asian Family in Literature and Film
Book Subtitle: Challenges and Contestations-South Asia, Southeast Asia and Asian Diaspora, Volume II
Editors: Bernard Wilson, Sharifah Aishah Osman
Series Title: Asia-Pacific and Literature in English
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-97-2226-6Due: 19 July 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-97-2229-7Due: 19 July 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-97-2227-3Due: 19 July 2024
Series ISSN: 2524-7638
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7646
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 435
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour