Recentring Asia: Histories, Encounters, Identities - Hardcover

Jacob Edmond; Henry Johnson; Jacqueline Leckie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1906876258 ISBN 13: 9781906876258

Publisher: Global Oriental, 2011

Synopsis

Recentring Asia forces the reader to rethink the centre not as a single site towards which all is oriented, but as a zone of encounter, exchange and contestation.

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About the Author

Jacob Edmond is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Otago. He has recently completed a book manuscript entitled A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature (Fordham University Press, forthcoming). Henry Johnson is Professor in the Department of Music, University of Otago. His recent publications include Performing Japan (Global Oriental, 2008; co-edited with Jerry Jaffe) and The Shamisen (Brill, 2010). Jacqueline Leckie is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago. Her recent publications include an edited collection, Development in an Insecure and Gendered World (Ashgate, 2009), and Localizing Asia in Aotearoa co-edited with Paola Voci (Dunmore Publishing, 2011).

Edition details

• Publisher: Global Oriental
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1906876258
• ISBN 13: 9781906876258
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 356