1st Edition
Orientalism and Reverse Orientalism in Literature and Film Beyond East and West
1. Introduction: Resisting Orientalism
Bernard Wilson and Sharmani Patricia Gabriel
Part I: (Neo)Imperial Desire and Re(pro)ductive Stereotypes
2. Masquerade, Mise-en-Scène and Female Harem Desire in Abdul the Damned (1935)
Julie F. Codell
3. Zen and the Art of Cultural Cliché: Three Cinematic Pilgrimages to Japan in the New Millennium
Bernard Wilson
4. "Putting it My Way, but Nicely": Neocolonialism in Feminist Clothing in Andy Tennant’s Anna and the King (1999) and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I (1956)
Lucian Țion
Part II: East-West Travel and Cultural Translation
5. Steinbeck’s East of Eden: Progenitor of Chinese American Intertextual and Intercultural Encounters
Nicholas O. Pagan
6. "The Impossibility of Knowing": Exoticism and East-West Intersections in the Travel Writings of Victor Segalen
Yu Min Claire Chen
7. A Passage to the West: Globalization and the Refugee Crisis in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West
Aslı Değirmenci Altın
8. "Make the Best of Both Worlds": Utopianism in Aldous Huxley’s Island and D. T. Suzuki’s Social Thought
Hisashi Ozawa
9. Remote Translators: Translational Life Narrative in Edward Seidensticker and Donald Richie
David Huddart
Part III: Re-Orienting National History and Glocalizing Contexts
10. Rethinking Rural China: Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum and the Roots-Searching Movement in a Post-Cultural Revolution Context
Qiao Li
11. China’s Orient in Fan de Siècle Culture
Sheng-Mei Ma
12. Reorienting Sinophone America through "Sinophone Orientalism"
Melody Yunzi Li
13. Between Script and Genre: A Space Where East Meets West
Sung-Ae Lee
Index
Biography
Sharmani Patricia Gabriel is Professor of English at Universiti Malaya, Malaysia.
Bernard Wilson teaches at Gakushuin University, Tsuda University, and the University of the Sacred Heart, Japan.
