Chapter 6 Consuming Asian Women: The Fluid Body of Josie Packard in Twin Peaks

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
3. CONTENTS ix
4. CONTRIBUTORS xi
5. A NOTE ON ROMANIZATION xiii
6. Introduction Engaging Chinese Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies 1
7. Part One: Discipline, Discourse, Canon
8. Chapter 1 The Challenge of East-West Comparative Literature 21
9. Chapter 2 The Utopias of Discourse: On the Impossibility of Chinese Comparative Literature 36
10. Chapter 3 Canon Formation in Traditional Chinese Poetry: Chinese Canons, Sacred and Profane 50
11. Part Two. Gender, Sexuality, Body
12. Chapter 4 A Feminist Re-Vision of Xu Wei's Ci Mulan and Nü zhuangyuan 73
13. Chapter 5 Gender, Subjectivity, Sexuality: Defining a Subversive Discourse in Wang Anyi's Four Tales of Sexual Transgression 90
14. Chapter 6 Consuming Asian Women: The Fluid Body of Josie Packard in Twin Peaks 110
15. Part Three. Science, Modernity, Aesthetics
16. Chapter 7 Travel and Translation: An Aspect of China's Cultural Modernity, r862-r926 133
17. Chapter 8 Baoyu in Wonderland: Technological Utopia in the Early Modern Chinese Science Fiction Novel 152
18. Chapter 9 The Texture of the Metropolis: Modernist Inscriptions of Shanghai in the 1930s 173
19. Chapter 10 The Cult of Poetry in Contemporary China 188
20. Chapter 11 Tianya, the Ends of the World or the Edge of Heaven: Comparative Literature at the Fin de Siecle 218
21. NOTES 235
22. CHARACTER LIST 283
23. INDEX 301