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- Undercurrents: Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University of British Columbia Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xii-xiii
- Note on Romanization
- p. xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-7
- 1. Sex and the Postcolonial City
- pp. 8-39
- 2. Between Girls
- pp. 40-64
- 3. Trans Formations
- pp. 65-84
- 4. In Queer Memory
- pp. 85-105
- 5. Do It Yourself
- pp. 106-120
- Bibliography
- pp. 135-143
- Filmography
- pp. 144-145
- Discography
- p. 146
Additional Information
ISBN
9780774856119
MARC Record
OCLC
747432509
Pages
186
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No