Sinophone-Anglophone Cultural Duet
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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Presents the term “Sino-Anglo” over “China-US” to articulate the connection between cultures codified by language rather than nation Pushes against existing disciplines of Area and American Studies as well as Euro-centric comparative literature to offer a thorough analysis of the tensions that simultaneously bind and separate disciplines The latest volume from one of the leading scholars of the cultural connections between the Global East and West Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Sheng-mei Ma
Themen in »Sinophone-Anglophone Cultural Duet«
Comparative Cultural Studies China-US Relations Transpacific Doppelganger Global Culture sinophone anglophone Sino-Anglo semblable cross-cultural