19 The Misconstrued Reader: Contemporary Sinophone Literature in Thailand

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Sinophone Studies Across Disciplines 1
4. PART I Interdisciplinary Conjunctions
5. 1 The Question of Chinese Empire 23
6. 2 Stonewall Aside: When Queer Theory Meets Sinophone Studies 55
7. 3 Written Out: Dance and the Sinophone 73
8. 4 Cantonese Opera and Sino-Soundscape in North America 89
9. 5 Ann Hui, Hainan, and the Sino-Vietnamese War: A Sinophone Inter-Asian Recasting of Boat People’s Transpacific Refugee Critique 108
10. 6 Sinophonic Affects: Kyle Dargan’s Anagnorisis and the Poetics of Infrastructure in Chan Tze Woon’s Yellowing 125
11. PART II Theories, Methodologies, Controversies
12. 7 Geocritical Sinophone and Transgressive Community 147
13. 8 Sinophone Postloyalism 161
14. 9 Parasite: Conceptualizing a Sinophone Approach and Ethics 176
15. 10 Queer Hong Kong as a Sinophone Method 193
16. 11 Enjoy Your Sinophone! 209
17. 12 The Lure of Diaspora and Sinophone Malaysian Literature in Taiwan 226
18. 13 Conditions of Theory in Taiwan: Americanism and Settler Colonialism 243
19. PART III Places of Differentiation
20. 14 Chinese Settler Colonialism: Empire and Life in the Tibetan Borderlands 265
21. 15 Beyond Musical, Political, and Linguistic Boundaries: The Influence of the Hong Kong Rock Band Beyond in the PRC in the 1990s and Its Legacy 281
22. 16 Translanguaging as a Transcultural Marker in the Italian Sinophone Play Tong Men-g 299
23. 17 From Multilingualism to Mandarin: Chinese Singaporeans as a Sinophone Community, 1945–1990 315
24. 18 Adaptation and Identity Building Among the Ethnic Chinese Communities in Vietnam: A View from Ritual Transformation in Popular Religion 332
25. 19 The Misconstrued Reader: Contemporary Sinophone Literature in Thailand 361
26. Contributors 377
27. Index 381