Alvin K. Wong

Unruly Comparison

Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone

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Produktbeschreibung

Alvin K. Wong examines queerness in Hong Kong through a transdisciplinary analysis of Sinophone literature, cinema, visual culture, and civil society.

Produktdetails

• Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 292g
• ISBN-13: 9781478031895
• ISBN-10: 1478031891
• Artikelnr.: 71884036

Autorenporträt

Alvin K. Wong is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong and coeditor of Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies .

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Queer Hong Kong across the Transpacific Sinophone  1
1. Queer Hong Kong as a Sinophone Method: An Archival Undoing  23
2. Postcoloniality Beyond China-Centrism: South-South Transnationalism and
Queer Sinophone Localism in Hong Kong Cinema  41
3. Transnationalizing Transgender: Tracey, Queer Globalities, and Sinophone
Regionalism  61
4. Queer Sinophone Intimacies: Visualizing Queer Migrant Domestic Workers 
87
5. Trespassing the Sinophone Border: On Fruit Chan’s Prostitute Trilogy 
115
Epilogue  135
Notes  145
Filmography  157
Bibliography  159
Index  171