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Book SynopsisEastern and Western Synergies and Imaginations: Texts and Histories is a product of east-west studies crossed with adaptation studies: it goes beyond evaluation of cultural interactions and discussion of forms and manners of adaptation. This volume brings together critical discourses from various cultural locales which have developed from and thrived on the notion of “East meets West” or “West meets East”. The 10 chapters trace and investigate cross-, trans- or multi-cultural interpretations of fictional and non-fictional narratives that feature people and events in cities and regions which thrive, or have thrived, as East-West hubs, thereby expounding multiple layers of relationship between source texts and new texts. An allegorical play, The Three Ladies of Macao, premièred in December 2016, is now published as appendix in this volume.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgement List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Katrine K. Wong 1 “A Being … from a Different World”: Yung Wing and the Making of a Global Subjectivity Patricia P. Chu 2 Maritime Links, Imperialism, and Diaspora in the Ibis Shilpa Daithota Bhat 3 Utopia and History: Os Lusíadas (Camões) and Uma viagem à Índia (G. Tavares) Helena Carvalhão Buescu 4 “Orientalism from within” in Goa: Local Textual Production in Light of the Legal and Administrative Framework of the Overseas Populations Everton V. Machado 5 Present Absences: the East in the Story of a Port Town on the Western Coast of the Black Sea Onoriu Colacel 6 Pragmatism and Politics Intertwined: the West, the East, the Suez Crisis, and Inter/national Hegemony in James Graham’s Eden’s Empire Önder Çakirtas 7 A Dog of Flanders: of Triumphant Heroes and Heroic Losers Etienne Boumans 8 Yeats, Noh Theatre, and the Traditions of Asia Matthew Gibson 9 David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face in Postracial Times Keith Appler 10 Imagining Robert Wilson’s The Three Ladies of London in Macao Katrine K. Wong Appendix: The Three Ladies of Macao (2016) Katrine K. Wong Index
