Recentring Asia

Histories, Encounters, Identities
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-906876-25-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 715 g

These essays argue that recentring Asia necessitates a revision not only of notions of Asia but also of the centre itself. On the one hand, recentring Asia asserts the centrality of overlooked Asian histories, encounters and identities to world history, culture and geopolitics. On the other hand, recentring provides a way to address and rethink the concept of the centre, a term critical to Asian Studies, area studies and, more broadly, to the study of globalization, postcolonialism, diaspora, modernism and modernity. Drawing on new approaches in these fields, Recentring Asia asks the reader to rethink the centre not as a single site towards which all is oriented, but as a zone of encounter, exchange and contestation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Edmond, Jacob

Johnson, Henry

Leckie, Jacqueline

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Part 1: Place and History; 1. ‘The Dark Passage’ History, Piracy and the Melaka Strait; 2. In Interesting Times: Northeast Asia’s Tipping-Point and its Implications for the Southern Hemisphere; 3. Indians in the South Pacific: Recentred Diasporas; 4. The Legend of Minamoto no Tametomo: Controversy and Connections Between Ryukyuan/Okinawan and Japanese Histories; Part 2: Encounter and Displacement; 5. Dislocated Location and Impersonal Autobiography: Yang Lian and the Object of Contemporary Chinese Poetry; 6. The City as a Contact Zone: Shanghai as a Crossroad Between China and Japan; 7. From Diasporic Communities to ‘Abandoned People’ (Kimin); 8. Hiding behind Ambiguity: Identifying an Ethnicity; 9. Supporting Foreigners in Japan: NGOs and Advocacy; Part 3: Representation and Identity; 10. Indecent Intimacies: Chinese Men As Sexual Predators In New Zealand Fiction, 1934 To 2006; 11. The Trope of the Ghost and Cultural Hybridity in Kim Sok Pom’s Mandogi Yurei Kitan (The Extraordinary Ghost Story of Mandogi) (1971); 12. Wartime Tanka Poetry: Writing In Extremis; 13. Reaching out with Chimugukuru: Positioning Okinawan Identity at the Fourth Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival and Beyond; 14. Musical Moves and Transnational Grooves: Education, Transplantation and Japanese Taiko Drumming at the International Pacific College, New Zealand; Index

Über Autor(innen)

Leckie, Jacqueline
Jacqueline Leckie is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago. Her recent publications include an edited collection, Development in an Insecure and Gendered World (Ashgate, 2009), and Localizing Asia in Aotearoa co-edited with Paola Voci (Dunmore Publishing, 2011).

Johnson, Henry
Henry Johnson is Professor in the Department of Music, University of Otago. His recent publications include Performing Japan (Global Oriental, 2008; co-edited with Jerry Jaffe) and The Shamisen (Brill, 2010).

Edmond, Jacob
Jacob Edmond is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Otago. He has recently completed a book manuscript entitled A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature (Fordham University Press, forthcoming).

Jacob Edmond is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Otago. He has recently completed a book manuscript entitled A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature (Fordham University Press, forthcoming).

Henry Johnson is Professor in the Department of Music, University of Otago. His recent publications include Performing Japan (Global Oriental, 2008; co-edited with Jerry Jaffe) and The Shamisen (Brill, 2010).

Jacqueline Leckie is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago. Her recent publications include an edited collection, Development in an Insecure and Gendered World (Ashgate, 2009), and Localizing Asia in Aotearoa co-edited with Paola Voci (Dunmore Publishing, 2011).