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Intimating the Sacred

Religion in English Language Malaysian Fiction

By: Andrew Hock Soon Ng

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Intimating the Sacred

Religion in English Language Malaysian Fiction

By: Andrew Hock Soon Ng

Religion has featured in Anglophone literature in Malaysia from colonial times to the present. In Intimating the Sacred, Andrew Hock Soon Ng considers the practice of everyday religiosity as represented in literature, which is often starkly opposed to the impression created by religious rhetoric promoted by the government. The book's examination of intersections between (post)modernity and religion highlights links between religion and other facets of colonial and postcolonial identity such as class, gender and sexuality. It will appeal not only to scholars and specialists, but also to anyone who enjoys modern Southeast Asian literature. Andrew Hock Soon Ng is senior lecturer in literary studies at Monash University, Sunway Campus, Malaysia. He is the author of Dimensions of Monstrosity in Contemporary Narratives and Interrogating Interstices. "In Intimating the Sacred, Andrew Hock Soon Ng confirms his status as one of the most important new voices in Malaysian literary studies, moving beyond national and postcolonial frameworks to a more subtle plotting of the psychic contours of Malaysian modernity." – Philip Holden, National University of Singapore "In Malaysia, the relationships between various religions, the state ideology and the multicultural composition of the populace are fraught with tension. Ng's book, with critical insights derived from a balanced treatment of texts and theory, deals with these issues in a robust and uncompromising manner. This is a welcome contribution to Southeast Asian literary studies." – Eddie Tay, author of Colony, Nation, and Globalisation "This refreshing approach to Malaysian canonical texts combines diverse literary theories and religion. Courageous and convincing, it engages post colonialism, feminism, and theories of religion with a sophisticated focus on texts." – Gaik Cheng Khoo, Australian National University

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9888083201

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Interrogating Interstices

Gothic Aesthetics in Postcolonial Asian and Asian American Literature

By: Andrew Hock-soon Ng

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Interrogating Interstices

Gothic Aesthetics in Postcolonial Asian and Asian American Literature

By: Andrew Hock-soon Ng

This study attempts to multiculturalise the Gothic by reading a wide selection of Postcolonial Asian and Asian American narratives in light of familiar Gothic tropes such as the uncanny, the double, spectres, and the sublime. Discussing some of the more important concepts in postcolonialism such as subjectivity, belonging, hybridity and nationalism, the author argues that the trajectory of the postcolonial and diasporic experience is fraught with profound moments of trauma, loss and transgression which the aesthetics of the Gothic can illuminate. Throughout the study, a careful balance is maintained between deploying Gothic criticism and emphasising the narrative's cultural, historical and ideological specificity to ensure that a textual form of colonial imposition does not occur. Writings by well-known authors such as Rushdie, Roy, Ondaatje and Mukherjee, and lesser known ones such as Lan Samantha Chang, K.S, Maniam and Beth Yahp are analysed.

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Peter Lang

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3039110063

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Gothic Literature

By: Andrew Smith

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Gothic Literature

By: Andrew Smith

New edition of bestselling introductory text outlining the history and ways of reading Gothic literatureThis revised edition includes:* A new chapter on Contemporary Gothic which explores the Gothic of the early twenty first century and looks at new critical developments* An updated Bibliography of critical sources and a revised Chronology The book opens with a Chronology and an Introduction to the principal texts and key critical terms, followed by five chapters: The Gothic Heyday 1760-1820; Gothic 1820-1865; Gothic Proximities 1865-1900; Twentieth Century; and Contemporary Gothic. The discussion examines how the Gothic has developed in different national contexts and in different forms, including novels, novellas, poems, films, radio and television. Each chapter concludes with a close reading of a specific text - Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Dracula, The Silence of the Lambs and The Historian - to illustrate ways in which contextual discussion informs critical analysis. The book ends with a Conclusion outlining possible future developments within scholarship on the Gothic.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748647430

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9780748647439

Women and Domestic Space in Contemporary Gothic Narratives

The House as Subject

By: A. Soon,Andrew Hock Soon Ng

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Women and Domestic Space in Contemporary Gothic Narratives

The House as Subject

By: A. Soon,Andrew Hock Soon Ng

Moving away from traditional studies of Gothic domesticity based on symbolism, Soon instead focuses on domestic space's material presence and the traces it leaves on the human subjects inhabiting it. Approaching novels and films such as Beloved and The Exorcist , this study intersects psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and various spatial theories.

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1137532912

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Women and Domestic Space in Contemporary Gothic Narratives

The House as Subject

By: A. Soon,Andrew Hock Soon Ng

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The House as Subject

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Intimating the Sacred

Religion in English Language Malaysian Fiction

By: Andrew Hock Soon Ng

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Dimensions of Monstrosity in Contemporary Narratives

Theory, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism

By: A. Ng

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Dimensions of Monstrosity in Contemporary Narratives

Theory, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism

By: A. Ng

Interweaving psychoanalysis, gender and cultural studies, and postmodern theories of geopolitics, this study of the monster in contemporary narratives demonstrates that the monster (and monstrosity) is largely a cultural and ideological production. Figures such as the serial-killer, the monstrous child, deformed bodies and spatially-influenced monstrosity will be considered through analyses of texts by Peter Ackroyd, Bret Easton Ellis, and Angela Carter (among others). The conclusion proposes that language itself becomes monstrous when it attempts, and fails, to articulate the monster.

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Interrogating Interstices

Gothic Aesthetics in Postcolonial Asian and Asian American Literature

By: Andrew Hock-soon Ng

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Gothic Aesthetics in Postcolonial Asian and Asian American Literature

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Intimating the Sacred

Intimating the Sacred

Interrogating Interstices

Interrogating Interstices

Gothic Literature

Gothic Literature

Women and Domestic Space in Contemporary Gothic Narratives

Women and Domestic Space in Contemporary Gothic Narratives

Women and Domestic Space in Contemporary Gothic Narratives

Women and Domestic Space in Contemporary Gothic Narratives

Intimating the Sacred

Intimating the Sacred

Dimensions of Monstrosity in Contemporary Narratives

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