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Title Gender and culture in literature and film East and West : issues of perception and interpretation : selected conference papers / edited by Nitaya Masavisut, George Simson, Larry E. Smith
Published Honolulu, Hawaii : College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature, University of Hawaii : East-West Center : Distributed by University of Hawaii Press, [1994]
©1994

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Description xxxv, 296 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Literary studies--East and West ; v. 9
Literary studies--East and West ; v. 9
Contents Introduction. Unsex me here : an Oriental's plea for gender reconciliation / Chetana Nagavajara -- 1. Idealized women of India and Malaysia Ophelia's travels / David Baker -- Perceptions of the ideal Malay woman in the works of Malaysian women novelists / Ungku Maimunah Mohd. Tahir -- Images of white women and Indian nationalism : ambivalent representations in Shakespeare's 'Wallah' and 'Junoon' / Lubna Chaudhry, Saba Khattak -- 2. Gender and orientalism Veiling the phallus : French modernism and the feminization of the Asian male / William Burgwinkle -- M. Butterfly : transvestism and cultural cross-dressing in the critique of empire / Rosalind Morris -- 3. Thai representations of gender and culture Do you see what I mean? : gender and communication in cross-cultural perspective / Poranee Natadecha-Sponsel, Kitima Indrambarya -- Social and cultural constraints on modern Thai women / Somporn Varnado -- 4. Western representation of the East Dragon chow : asylum seekers in German film / Victoria Joan Moessner -- 'The king and I' : East and West, men and women / Pamela S. DaGrossa -- Gender transformations in Asian/American representations / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Gender, genre, and myth in 'Thelma and Louise' / Glenn Man --
5. Sexually marginalized women of Asia Tanizaki's 'Naomi' : Japanese pygmalion meets westernized vamp / Jean Toyama -- Beauty as a homoerotic aspect in 'Forbidden colors' (1951) and 'Death in Venice' (1912) : an East-West encounter between Mishima Yukio and Thomas Mann / Linde Keil -- Gender and narrativity in Japanese literature : images of Ono No Komachi / Joni Koehn -- The importance of being artificial : gender and culture in Mishima Yukio's 'Confessions of a mask' / Roger C. Lewis -- Comm-fucian-ism, patriarchal politics in 'Judou' / William A. Callahan -- "East" meet "West" : the confrontation of different cultures in Thai T.V. dramas and films / Kanjana Kaewthep -- A denaturalized performance : gender and body construction in Thailand's 'As you like it' / Valerie Wayne -- 6. Indigenous voices and adaptations The Indian woman's dilemma : a study of formations in gender construct through mediation of western culture in Tagore's 'Ghare baire' and Ray's film version / Arundhati Banerjee -- The "Tuans" of Malaya revisited : voiced of the "ruled" / Mohd. Kamal Nawawi, Ruzy Suliza Hashim -- Gender in illustrations to Thai historical literature / Napat Sirisambhand, Alec Gordon -- 7. Women and culture Ninjrttes, nuns, amd lady asskickers : Thomas Pynchon's bow to the mythical Orient / Jeffrey Carroll -- A woman's place is in the kitchen of knowledge : premodern and postmodern representations of food (for thought) in Japanese film / Marie Thorsten Morimoto -- The proposed series on the history of Asian biography : polemic and science across ten cultures / George Simson -- Epilogue Asian cultural texts and western theory / Wimal Dissanayake
Notes Papers presented at a conference held in Chiang Mai, Thailand from May 20 to May 22, 1992
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Asians in motion pictures -- Congresses.
Asians in motion pictures.
Oriental literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Sex role in literature -- Congresses.
Oriental literature -- History and criticism.
Women in literature -- Congresses.
Sex role in literature.
Women in literature.
Women in motion pictures -- Congresses.
Women in motion pictures.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Masavisut, Nitaya, 1937-
Simson, George, 1931-
Smith, Larry E.
East-West Center.
University of Hawaii at Manoa. College of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature.
LC no. 94006572
ISBN 0824816021