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Editor:
Eastern and Western Synergies and Imaginations: Texts and Histories is a product of east-west studies crossed with adaptation studies: it goes beyond evaluation of cultural interactions and discussion of forms and manners of adaptation. This volume brings together critical discourses from various cultural locales which have developed from and thrived on the notion of “East meets West” or “West meets East”. The 10 chapters trace and investigate cross-, trans- or multi-cultural interpretations of fictional and non-fictional narratives that feature people and events in cities and regions which thrive, or have thrived, as East-West hubs, thereby expounding multiple layers of relationship between source texts and new texts. An allegorical play,
The Three Ladies of Macao, premièred in December 2016, is now published as appendix in this volume.
Katrine K. Wong, Ph.D. (2008), is Associate Professor of English at the University of Macau, where she also works as the Director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning Enhancement. Her publication includes monograph
Music and Gender in English Renaissance Drama (Routledge, 2013), edited book
Macao – Cultural Interaction and Literary Representations (Routledge, 2014), and articles in
Adaptation and
Early Theatre. Wong is also a classically trained pianist and operatic soprano. She is Conductor of Coro Perosi of Macao.
Acknowledgement
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Katrine K. Wong
1 “A Being … from a Different World”: Yung Wing and the Making of a Global Subjectivity
Patricia P. Chu
2 Maritime Links, Imperialism, and Diaspora in the Ibis
Shilpa Daithota Bhat
3 Utopia and History: Os Lusíadas (Camões) and Uma viagem à Índia (G. Tavares) Helena Carvalhão Buescu
4 “Orientalism from within” in Goa: Local Textual Production in Light of the Legal and Administrative Framework of the Overseas Populations
&emsp Everton V. Machado
5 Present Absences: the East in the Story of a Port Town on the Western Coast of the Black Sea
Onoriu Colacel
6 Pragmatism and Politics Intertwined: the West, the East, the Suez Crisis, and Inter/national Hegemony in James Graham’s Eden’s Empire
Önder Çakirtas
7 A Dog of Flanders: of Triumphant Heroes and Heroic Losers
Etienne Boumans
8 Yeats, Noh Theatre, and the Traditions of Asia
Matthew Gibson
9 David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face in Postracial Times
Keith Appler
10 Imagining Robert Wilson’s The Three Ladies of London in Macao
Katrine K. Wong
Appendix: The Three Ladies of Macao (2016)
Katrine K. Wong
Index
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Katrine K. Wong
1 “A Being … from a Different World”: Yung Wing and the Making of a Global Subjectivity
Patricia P. Chu
2 Maritime Links, Imperialism, and Diaspora in the Ibis
Shilpa Daithota Bhat
3 Utopia and History: Os Lusíadas (Camões) and Uma viagem à Índia (G. Tavares) Helena Carvalhão Buescu
4 “Orientalism from within” in Goa: Local Textual Production in Light of the Legal and Administrative Framework of the Overseas Populations
&emsp Everton V. Machado
5 Present Absences: the East in the Story of a Port Town on the Western Coast of the Black Sea
Onoriu Colacel
6 Pragmatism and Politics Intertwined: the West, the East, the Suez Crisis, and Inter/national Hegemony in James Graham’s Eden’s Empire
Önder Çakirtas
7 A Dog of Flanders: of Triumphant Heroes and Heroic Losers
Etienne Boumans
8 Yeats, Noh Theatre, and the Traditions of Asia
Matthew Gibson
9 David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face in Postracial Times
Keith Appler
10 Imagining Robert Wilson’s The Three Ladies of London in Macao
Katrine K. Wong
Appendix: The Three Ladies of Macao (2016)
Katrine K. Wong
Index
This cross-disciplinary volume will interest anyone who work in East-West Studies and literary studies, in particular those involved in adaptation studies, Asian American Literature, theatrical studies and creative writing.