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1 y separately published work icon Narrating Race : Asia, (Trans)Nationalism, Social Change Robbie B. H. Goh (editor), Amsterdam : Rodopi , 2011 Z1825346 2011 anthology criticism 'This volume deals with the complexities of race in the Asia-Pacific context. Social tensions concerning race and ethnicity continue to pose profound challenges to Asia-Pacific countries in various stages of development and modernisation. Issues such as social justice, identity-formation, marginalisation and alienation, gender and related issues, are inevitably implicated in the racial cultures of Asia, and where Asian diasporic communities develop. The works in this volume explore the ways in which race-culture is reflected in literature and cultural texts (drama and performance, visual arts, film and television). Included in this volume are works on Amitav Ghosh, Vivan Sundaram, Li-Young Lee, R. K. Narayan, Ayu Utami, Dewi Lestari, Rex Shelley, Xu Xi, Pico Iyer and others.' Source: www.rodopi.nl/ (Sighted 18/11/2011).
1 Narrating 'Dark' India in Londonstani and The White Tiger : Sustaining Identity in the Diaspora Robbie B. H. Goh , 2011 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Commonwealth Literature , June vol. 46 no. 2 2011; (p. 327-344) 'In Indian Anglophone writing up to about the 1990s, a romantic narrative strand, working in parallel with a metafictional "encyclopaedic" form in other texts of the period, reflects a more hopeful and positive attitude towards Indian society, and an implicit confidence in its potential redemption. Many later works by Indian diasporic writers show a much more negative and critical attitude to India, catalysed by persisting socio-political problems such as corruption and communal violence. This "dark turn" in Indian Anglophone writing is very clearly seen in works such as Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger and Gautam Malkani's Londonstani, which seem to allow little or no possibility for India's social problems to be resolved, and indeed make that irresolvable violence and confusion their particular theme. Yet in a way this "dark" India ironically becomes the means of a distinct cultural focus, a narrative mode of engagement with the homeland that, irrespective of its negative social view, is a means of sustaining cultural identity within the homogenizing and deterritorializing forces of globalization' (Author's abstract).
1 y separately published work icon Asian Diasporas : Cultures, Identities, Representations Robbie B. H. Goh (editor), Shawn Wong (editor), Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2004 Z1568045 2004 anthology poetry
1 y separately published work icon Postcolonial Cultures and Literatures : Modernity and the (Un)Commonwealth Andrew Benjamin (editor), Robbie B. H. Goh (editor), Tony Davies (editor), New York (City) : Peter Lang , 2002 Z961283 2002 anthology criticism
1 y separately published work icon Ariels: Departures and Returns : Essays for Edward Thumboo Chee Kiong Tong (editor), Anne Pakir (editor), Ban Kah Choon (editor), Robbie B. H. Goh (editor), Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 2001 Z935329 2001 anthology criticism short story
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