Lessons from the East: Representations of East Asia in Contemporary Anglophone Films and Novels

This book analyses representations of East Asia, mainly China and Japan, in selected Anglophone novels and films. Starting with the earliest texts and accounts, the first two chapters explore wider historical and cultural contexts of the mutual influences between the cultures of the East and West. The subsequent three chapters discuss symptomatic examples of contemporary Anglophone films and novels and seek to show how various cultural flows have continued to mould Western images of East Asia. The book focuses on narratives that highlight Western subjects transforming or becoming reinvigorated under the East Asian influence and explores such issues as the impact of East Asian martial arts and religious practices on Western masculinities, East Asian motifs in utopian and dystopian fiction, and contemporary depictions of Asian-Western romantic relationships.Additional ISBNs9783631659090, 9783631710685, 3631659091, 3631710682Lessons from the East: Representations of East Asia in Contemporary Anglophone Films and Novels 1st Edition is written by Stankomir Nicieja and published by Peter Lang Gmb H, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften. ISBNs for Lessons from the East are 9783631710678, 3631710674 and the print ISBNs are 9783631659090, 3631659091. Additional ISBNs include 3631659091, 3631710682, 9783631659090, 9783631710685.