Complicities Connections and Divisions Perspectives on Literataures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region

Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Oxford, Wien. The twenty-seven essays in this volume are the product of the Ninth Biennial Symposium on the Literatures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region held in Singapore in December 1999. The contributions explore complicitous interactions between cultures, nations and people in the Asia-Pacific Region. Grouped into the three sections of &la" Asia-Pacific Relations, &la" The Politics of Identity and &la" Language, Gender and Empowerment, these essays examine selected texts from countries which include Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and Micronesia. Contents: Liew-Geok Leong/Rajeev S. Patke/Chitra Sankaran: General Introduction - Liew-Geok Leong: Introduction to Part I - Bruce Bennett: Singapore and Australia: Collaborators - Megumi Kato: The Scared Who Want to Scare. Fear of a Japanese Invasion in Australian Literature - John McLaren: Nationalism and Imperialism. Australia's Ambivalent Relationship to Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands - Tony Hughes-d'Aeth: Old Walls and New. The Australian Poet in the Asia-Pacific - Carlotta Lady Izumi Abrams: Buddha Nature and Aao. The Nexus of Micronesian and Marshallese Legends with the Buddhist Underpinnings of Asian North American Literature - Jeff Partridge: &la" America is no America - or is it? Transcending Cultural Binaries in Gish Jen's Typical American - Vicky Lee: Eurasian Voices in Wartime Hong Kong - Ryan Bishop: Births of Nations. Narrativity, Nativity, Naivete, and Postcolonial Historical &la" m'm'ry in Finnegans Wake and Shame - Lily Rose Tope: The Shifting Nation of the Chinese-Filipino Writer - Rajeev S.Patke: Introduction to Part II - Chiu Man Yin: A Portrait of the Nation as Four Young Men - Anne Brewster: Adolescence and the post-65 Generation. Colin Cheong's The Stolen Child - Philip Jeyaretnam: Tiger City or How Singapore Writers Can Earn Their Stripes - Rajeev S. PatkeSankaran, Chitra is the author of 'Complicities Connections and Divisions Perspectives on Literataures and Cultures of the Asia-Pacific Region', published 2003 under ISBN 9780820459455 and ISBN 0820459453.