Asia and the Historical Imagination

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wong, Jane Yeang Chui (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Oriental literature.; Literature .; Civilization-History.; Asian Literature.; Postcolonial/World Literature.; Cultural History.

This collection explores the interpretation of historical fiction through fictional representations of the past in an Asian context. Emphasising the significance of region and locality, it explores local networks of political and cultural exchanges at the heart of an Asian polity. The book considers...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Can One Speak of the September 30th Movement? The Power of Silence in Indonesian Literature
• Cultural Encounters and Imagining Multi-cultural Identities in Two Taiwanese Historical Novels
• Fate or State: The Double Life of a Composite Chinese Spy in A Map of Betrayal
• Contesting Chineseness in Vyvyane Loh's Breaking the Tongue
• Female Body as the Site of Historical Controversy: Ghostly Reappearance in South Korean Historical Fiction
• Cosmopolitan Retellings and the Idea of the Local: The Case of Salman Rushdie's Shame
• Connections, Contact, and Community in the Southeast Asian Past: Teaching Transnational History through Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace
• "Until it lives in our hands and in our eyes, and it's ours": Rewriting Historical Fiction and The Hungry Tide
• Coda.