Narrating Race

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Acknowledgements Robbie B.H. Goh: Introduction: Writing Race and Asia-Pacific Mobilities - Constructions and Contestations Tania Roy: Vivan Sundaram's Amrita: Towards a Style of the Body Robbie B.H. Goh: The Return of the Scientist: Essential Knowledge and Global Tribalism in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide and The Calcutta Chromosome Walter S.H. Lim: Ethnicity and the Southeast Asian Diaspora in Li-Young Lee's The Winged Seed Chitra Sankaran: Narrating Race, Gender and Sexuality in R.K. Narayan's The Painter of Signs Harry Aveling: Chinese Ethnicity in Post-Reformation Indonesian Women's Fiction: A Comparative Study of Two Novels by Ayu Utami and Dewi Lestari Caroline S. Hau: Resi(g)nifying the Chinese and Filipino in Cinematic Narratives Lily Rose Tope: Performing Ethnicity, Ethnicizing History: The Eurasians of Singapore in Rex Shelley's The Shrimp People Kwok-Kan Tam: Performing the Self: Race and Identity in Two Hong Kong English-Language Plays Terry Siu-Han Yip: Border Crossing: Place, Identity and Dis/Location of the Self in Xu Xi's The Unwalled City Julie Mehta: Hybrid Brown Gaijin Is a Distinguished Alien in Sakoku Japan Judy Celine Ick: Ugly Americans and Little Brown Brothers: Spectacles of Identity in Contemporary Philippine Drama Wenche Ommundsen: Disappearing Race: Normative Whiteness and Cultural Appropriation in Australian Refugee Narratives Agnes S.L. Lam: Race in Asian Poetry in English: Ethnic, National and Cosmopolitan Representations Notes on Contributors Index