Undercurrents: Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong

by Helen Hok-sze Leung

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. Leung explores Hong Kong cultural productions - cinema, fiction,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774814705
• ISBN13: 9780774814706
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 8.9"