Considers the concepts of 'East' and 'West' in terms of interpenetrating dynamic

Offers an interdisciplinary and international perspective on 'East' and 'West' as oppositional categories in the humanities and social sciences.

Offers a new framework to consider the salient questions of cultural, ideological and geographical change in our societies

Autorentext
Sharmani Patricia Gabriel is Professor and Head of the Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. She researches and teaches primarily in the fields of postcolonial literary studies, with a particular interest in the cultural politics of identity and ideas of race, diaspora, migration and multiculturalism. She is Editor-in-Chief of SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English.
Nicholas O. Pagan is Visiting Professor at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. His research interests include literary theory and criticism, literature and philosophy, science, and spirituality. He has published on a number of literary theorists and also on the philosophy of mind, science, American literature, theatre studies, and film. He is currently working in the area of phenomenology, play, and literary minds. He is the author of Theory of Mind and Science Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

Inhalt
INTRODUCTION.- East/West: What's at Stake?.- part i: COMPARATIVE AND CROSS-CULTURAL APPROACHES.- Liu Hsieh and Mark Turner: The Elucidation of Literary Minds.- Crossing Frontiers: English Romanticism and Sufism as Literary Movements.- PART II: Transnational orient(ations) and EMPIRES.- 'The Democracy of Art': Elizabeth Keith and the Aesthetic of the Eastern Ordinary.- From Victorian England to Colonial Korea: Desire and Subversion in Chan-wook Park's Ah-ga-ssi ( The Handmaiden ).- PART iII: Immigration, RACE, AND Antinomies of NATION.- Identity and Mis/Identification: The Asylum Seeker in Roma Tearne's The Swimmer .- Korean/American Literary Images of Black Amerasians.- part iV: TRANSLATING MEMORY and SUBALTERN HISTORy.- Graphic Visions: Translating Chinese History through Collaborative Graphic Autobiography.- Memory, Empathy, and Narrative in Meena Kandasamy's The Gypsy Goddess .- Conclusion.- In Lieu of a Conclusion: East and West as Regions of Consciousness.