Eastern and Western Synergies and Imaginations

Texts and Histories

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Eastern 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.

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Katrine K. Wong, Ph.D. (2008), is Associate Professor of English at the University of Macau, where she also works as the Director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning Enhancement. Her publication includes monograph Music and Gender in English Renaissance Drama (Routledge, 2013), edited book Macao – Cultural Interaction and Literary Representations (Routledge, 2014), and articles in Adaptation and Early Theatre. Wong is also a classically trained pianist and operatic soprano. She is Conductor of Coro Perosi of Macao.
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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
&emspEverton 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
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This cross-disciplinary volume will interest anyone who work in East-West Studies and literary studies, in particular those involved in adaptation studies, Asian American Literature, theatrical studies and creative writing.
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