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"Is memory always a reliable register of the past? Is trauma a concept that can be translated across cultures? Can pain and affect have global applicability and utility for literary and cultural analysis? Do the approaches and perspectives generated by literary and cultural texts hold purchase for social, political, and historical interventions in the 21st century? Contemporary Asia is a diverse and sweeping region throughout which the traumatic legacies of colonialism persist and military regimes and dictatorships have produced untold human suffering. Countless loss of lives have been caused by revolution, civil war, and genocide. A global pandemic, natural catastrophes, closed borders, and acute xenophobia render existing social and political tensions even more volatile today. The insights of trauma theory for the analysis of literary and cultural representations in Asia and its diasporas and the enrichment of trauma studies by Asian texts are two imperative research fields. Memory, Trauma, Asia broadens the scope of memory and trauma studies by critically meditating on whether existing concepts of memory and trauma are sustainable in relation to the histories, present states, and futures of the non-Occidental world. Explore the complex and surprising intersections of literature, history, ethics, affect, and social justice across the region through its wide-ranging but closely comparative focus on geo-political sites across East, South, and Southeast Asia. This volume unite perspectives on both dominant and marginalized sites in the broad Asian continent, including Cambodia, China, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka. As such, it is the first of its kind to comparatively argue for an intersectional mode of memory and trauma studies that centers the Orient rather than pushing it to the periphery of the Occident. This volume will appeal to scholars, students, teachers, and readers interested in memory and trauma studies, comparative Asian studies, diaspora and postcolonial studies, global studies, and women, gender, and sexuality studies in the 21st century"--...
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