Sinophone-Anglophone Cultural Duet 2017 Edition Contributor(s): Ma, Sheng-Mei (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319580329 ISBN-13: 9783319580326 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Literary Criticism | Asian - General - Performing Arts | Film - General |
Dewey: 306 |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.02 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book examines the paradox of China and the United States' literary and visual relationships, morphing between a happy duet and a contentious duel in fiction, film, poetry, comics, and opera from both sides of the Pacific. In the 21st century where tension between the two superpowers escalates, a gaping lacuna lies in the cultural sphere of Sino-Anglo comparative cultures. By focusing on a "Sinophone-Anglophone" relationship rather than a "China-US" one, Sheng-mei Ma eschews realpolitik, focusing on the two languages and the cross-cultural spheres where, contrary to Kipling's twain, East and West forever meet, like a repetition compulsion bordering on neurosis over the self and its cultural other. Indeed, the coupling of the two--duet-cum-duel--is so predictable that each seems attracted to and repulsed by its dark half, semblable, (in)compatible for their shared larger-than-life-ness. |