Undercurrents: Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong - Couverture souple

Leung, Helen Hok-Sze

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0774814705 ISBN 13 : 9780774814706

Editeur : University of British Columbia Press, 2009

Synopsis

Undercurrents engages the critical rubric of "queer" to examine Hong Kong's screen and media culture during the transitional and immediate postcolonial period. Helen Hok-Sze Leung draws on theoretical insights from a range of disciplines to reveal parallels between the crisis and uncertainty of the territory's postcolonial transition and the queer aspects of its cultural productions. She explores Hong Kong cultural productions - cinema, fiction, popular music, and subcultural projects - and argues that while there is no overt consolidation of gay and lesbian identities in Hong Kong culture, undercurrents of diverse and complex expressions of gender and sexual variance are widely in evidence. Undercurrents uncovers a queer media culture that has been largely overlooked by critics in the West and demonstrates the cultural vitality of Hong Kong amidst political transition.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Helen Hok-Sze Leung is an assistant professor in women's studies at Simon Fraser University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of British Columbia Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0774814705
• ISBN 13: 9780774814706
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 204
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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