[csaa-forum] Cosmopatriots: On Distant Belongings and Close Encounters.

[Francis Maravillas]

Cosmopatriots: On Distant Belongings and Close Encounters.

Edwin JURRIËNS, and Jeroen de KLOET (Eds.)

Thamyris: Intersecting Place, Sex and Race Series no. 16
Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2007, 302 pp.
Pb: 978-90-420-2360-4
€ 60 / US$ 90

Online Info: http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=thamyris+16

This volume analyzes mediated articulations of “cosmopatriotism” in East and South-East Asian popular cultures and arts. Cosmopatriots navigate between a loyalty to the home country and a sense of longing for and belonging to the world. Rather than searching for the truly globalized cosmopolitans, the authors of this collection look for the postcolonial, rooted cosmopolitans who insist on thinking and feeling simultaneously beyond and within the nation. The cultural sites they discuss include Hong Kong, Indonesia, China, Singapore, the United States, South Korea and Australia. They show how media from both sides of the arbitrary divide between high art and popular culture – including film, literature, the fine arts, radio, music, television and mobile phones – function as vehicles for the creation and expression of, or reflection upon, intersections between patriotism and cosmopolitanism.

Contents

Jeroen DE KLOET and Edwin JURRIËNS: Introduction: Cosmopatriots: On Distant Belongings and Close Encounters

I: Sex

Helen HOK-SZE LEUNG: Let’s Love Hong Kong: A Queer Look at Cosmopatriotism

Tom BOELLSTORFF: Dubbing Culture: Indonesian Gay and Lesbi Subjectivities and Ethnography in an Already Globalized World

Song HWEE LIM: Queering Chineseness: Searching for Roots and the Politics of Shame in (Post)Colonial Singapore


II: Space

Yiu FAI CHOW: Descendants of the Dragon, Sing!

Edwin JURRIËNS: The Cosmopatriotism of Indonesia’s Radio-Active Public Sphere

Jeroen DE KLOET: Cosmopatriot Contaminations


III: Body

Stephen EPSTEIN and Jon DUNBAR: Skinheads of Korea, Tigers of the East

Emma BAULCH: Cosmopatriotism in Indonesian Pop Music Imagings

Michelle ANTOINETTE: Deterritorializing Aesthetics: International Art and its New Cosmopolitanisms, from an Indonesian Perspective


IV: Race

Kyongwon YOON: New Technology and Local Identity in the Global Era: The Case of South Korean Youth Culture

Francis MARAVILLAS: Haunted Cosmopolitanisms: Spectres of Chinese Art in the Diaspora

Qin LIWEN: The Vision of the Other

Rey CHOW: Afterword





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