At the Pivot of East and West: Ethnographic, Literary, and Filmic Arts

by Michael M. J. Fischer

Book Overview

In At the Pivot of East and West, Michael M. J. Fischer examines documentary filmmaking and literature from Southeast Asia and Singapore for their para-ethnographic insights into politics, culture, and aesthetics. Women novelists--Lydia Kwa, Laksmi Pamuntjak, Sandi Tan, Jing Jing Lee, and Danielle Lim--renarrate Southeast Asian generational and political worlds as gendered psychodramas, while filmmakers Tan Pin Pin and Daniel Hui use film to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478019891
• ISBN13: 9781478019893
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.