Titlebook: Asia and the Historical Imagination; Jane Yeang Chui Wong Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 Historical Fictio

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,Asia’s Other History,s that are influenced by regional or global power relations. Instead of focusing on the “export” of fictional narratives as a means to represent histories and cultures, . considers historical fiction more introspectively and explores how relationships among community, nation, and region can help exp

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Fate or State: The Double Life of a Composite Chinese Spy in ,is daughter’s first-person account, covering two historical periods, representing different generations, and orchestrating multiple national(ist) perspectives. This chapter brings out the four-way correspondences between the author Jin, the historical Chin, and the fictional Gary and his grandson Be

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,Contesting Chineseness in Vyvyane Loh’s ,se ideas together appear to, but do not, render Claude a “reborn” Chinese. This chapter examines the versions of Chineseness in Loh’s novel, and how Claude must break away from assumptions and expectations of Chineseness that are linked to China in order to develop a unique Chinese identity that is

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The Female Body as the Site of Historical Controversy: Ghostly Reappearance in South Korean Historithe global era. I also demonstrate how the workings of visualization in these texts posit the Empress and her significance within ambivalent frameworks (i.e. between “tradition”/“modern” and “national”/“global desire”), and how such positioning manipulates her significance in order to fulfill Korea’

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,Cosmopolitan Retellings and the Idea of the Local: The Case of Salman Rushdie’s ,ical approach becomes especially relevant in Asian post-colonial “cosmopolitan” contexts with their historically mixed (or split) epistemological and aesthetic legacies. Examining . in this light, I highlight the text’s aesthetically hybrid magic-realist negotiation of gender issues in the early dec