Narrating Race

”Read together, the essays make a convincing case for critical race studies as a powerful lens through which to comprehend postcolonial legacies in contemporary Asian cultural production while demonstrating how culture in turn reconfigures the very grounds in which race is rendered meaningful.” - Christopher Lee, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in: Pacific Affairs, Vol. 86.1 (2013), pp. 124-126

• AcknowledgementsRobbie B.H. Goh: Introduction: Writing Race and Asia-Pacific Mobilities – Constructions and ContestationsTania Roy: Vivan Sundaram’s “Amrita”: Towards a Style of the BodyRobbie B.H. Goh: The Return of the Scientist: Essential Knowledge and Global Tribalism in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and The Calcutta ChromosomeWalter S.H. Lim: Ethnicity and the Southeast Asian Diaspora in Li-Young Lee’s The Winged SeedChitra Sankaran: Narrating Race, Gender and Sexuality in R.K. Narayan’s The Painter of SignsHarry Aveling: Chinese Ethnicity in Post-Reformation Indonesian Women’s Fiction: A Comparative Study of Two Novels by Ayu Utami and Dewi LestariCaroline S. Hau: Resi(g)nifying the Chinese and Filipino in Cinematic NarrativesLily Rose Tope: Performing Ethnicity, Ethnicizing History: The Eurasians of Singapore in Rex Shelley’s The Shrimp PeopleKwok-Kan Tam: Performing the Self: Race and Identity in Two Hong Kong English-Language PlaysTerry Siu-Han Yip: Border Crossing: Place, Identity and Dis/Location of the Self in Xu Xi’s The Unwalled CityJulie Mehta: Hybrid Brown Gaijin Is a “Distinguished Alien” in Sakoku JapanJudy Celine Ick: Ugly Americans and Little Brown Brothers: Spectacles of Identity in Contemporary Philippine DramaWenche Ommundsen: Disappearing Race: Normative Whiteness and Cultural Appropriation in Australian Refugee NarrativesAgnes S.L. Lam: Race in Asian Poetry in English: Ethnic, National and Cosmopolitan RepresentationsNotes on ContributorsIndex