Asian & Pacific Inscriptions: Identities, Ethnicities, Nationalities

by Suvendrini Perera (Editor)

From Jane Campion's film, The Piano, to the political speeches of Lee Kwan Yew, from an Australia Day postage stamp to Alison Broinowski's The Yellow Lady, from official Maori histories to managing indigeneity in Malaysia, from Australia's popular cultural icons to Samoan genealogies, from a gay bar in Manila to Koori organisational forms in Melbourne, crossing disciplinary boundaries and engaging a range of key questions in contemporary cultural theory, this exciting volume focuses on the texts and images that construct subjectivities and collective identities in a range of Asian and Pacific settings. Included are essays Dennis Altman, lan Anderson, Ien Ang, Adrian Chan, Bella Te Aku Graham, Linda Hardy, Foong Ling Kong, Yumi Lee, Hou Leong, Anne Maxwell, Joseph Pugliese, Jon Stratton, C.J.V.-L. Lee and Albert Wendt, Edited, with an introduction, by Suvendrini Perera A unique and fascinating contribution to cultural studies in the region, which also extends theoretical considerations of identities, ethnicities and nationalities outside an Atlantic-centred, Euro-American framework.

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First published January 1, 1995