Interactions

INTERACTIONS

Essays on the Literature and Culture of the Asia-Pacific Region

Edited by Dennis Haskell & Ron Shapiro
Associate Editor Tony Simoes da Silva

Interactions comprises a collection of essays celebrating cultural diversity in the Asia-Pacific region. The subjects examined range from Australian-Vietnamese stand up comedy to New Guinea folk opera to Muslim percetpions of the evils of television and white Australians' poems about Aborigines. What the contributors share is a belief in the value of cultural interaction and the richness of writing that may emerge from it. This book offers diverse maps of cross-cultural imagination.

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CONTENTS:

'Introduction: Cultural Identity in the Global Economy' by Dennis Haskell

'Multiculturalism and the New World (Dis)Order' by G. S. Jayasree

'Sail the Midnight Sun: Cross-cultural, Inter-cultural, or Intra-cultural Activity in the Creation of a Folk Opera' by Lynda Schulz

'Shopping and Cooking for the Hybrid in The World Waiting to be Made' by Mirian Lo

'Expatriates and the Question of Home: Jill Ker Conway and Shirley Geok-lin Lim' by Bruce Bennett

'The Ocker Ethnic: Reading Hung Le and Cultural Identity' by Tseen-Ling Khoo

'The Power of Time, or Why Thailand Makes Me Laugh' by Mark Weeks

Gender and Sexuality

'The Scheherezade Motif in Recent Australian Fiction Set in China and Southeas Asia' by David Brooks

'Postcolonial Gothic: Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Hawai'i' by Heather Neilson

'Parallels of Motivation and Cultural Context in the Feminist Poetry of Australia and India: A Comparative Analysis' by Subhas Chandra Saha

'"In the Beat of My Silences": Representations of Indigeneity, Gender and Sexuality in the Writing of Leslie Marmon Silko and Jamice Slater-Herring' by Angeline O'Neill

'The Evils of Television: Some Reflections on Shahnon Ahmad's Novel Tivi' by Harry Aveling

'Culture and Play of Desire in Merlinda Bobis' MsSerena Serenata and Beaut, Luv!' by Bill Dunstone

Travel and Initiation

'Crossing the Shadow Lines' by Silvia Albertazzi

'Unstable Communities: The Village in the Short Stories of Pira Sudham' by Andrew McRae

'Lu Xun's Medical Studies in Japan and His Fiction: A Deconstructive Reading' by Wong Yoon Wah

'Madame Izan, Butterflies and the Incomprehensible Japanese' by Megumi Kato

'"They couldn't tell us how to farm their skin": White Poems on Black Dispossession' by Geoff Page

'Singapore and the Two Ulysses' by Rajeev S. Patke