Virtual Lotus Modern Fiction of Southeast Asia

Name: Virtual Lotus Modern Fiction of Southeast Asia
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ISBN: 9780472067893

ISBN-10: 0472067893

ISBN-13: 9780472067893

Edition: 2002

Authors: Teri Shaffer Yamada

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Virtual Lotus is the first anthology to represent diverse writers throughout Southeast Asia. Their short stories reflect the tremendous social, political, and cultural changes experienced in the region during an age of rapid modernization. Both award-winning writers and new talent are represented, including Pramoedya Ananta Toer (Indonesia), Shahnon Ahmad (Malaysia), and Duong Thu Huong (Vietnam). With keen wit, satire, and pathos their stories poignantly illustrate contemporary life and literary currents in Southeast Asia during the twentieth century. Short introductions to each story provide a sketch of the country's literary history, revealing the interaction between individual writers…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 4/30/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.09" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.034



Acknowledgments


Prologue


Thadun



Clean, Clear Water



An Umbrella



An Unanswerable Question



Just a Human Being


A Khmer Policeman's Story: A Goddamn Rich Man of the New Era



My Sister



The Silent Center of Life's Day



Interview with Ravana



The Mysterious Shooter Trilogy: (1) "Killing Song"; (2) "The Sound of Rain on Roof Tiles"; (3) "Grrrr!"



The Purification of Sita



Death Price



A Bar at the Edge of a Cemetery



The Kling-Kling Woman



Two Brothers



Delirium



Dance of the Bees



The Plankway



Foolish



A Personal History of an Island



Sex, Size and Ginseng



Painting the Eye



And the Grass Is Trampled



Sita Puts Out the Fire



The Family in the Street



The Painting



The Music Child



The Mayor of the Roses



Mother Lily and the Mail-Order Groom



Tu Ben the Actor



You Must Live



Unsettled



The Story of an Actress



Glossary


Suggested Readings


Notes on Translators