TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ................................................................................... viii
Acknowledgements .................................................................................... ix
Chapter One................................................................................................. 1
Introduction
Jonathan White
Section One: Earlier Precedents of Urban and Cultural Connection
Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 24
Odysseus and the Phaeacians: The City and the Ocean at the Beginning
of Western Literature
John T. Kirby
Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 42
The City as Contest Zone: Rhodes and Malta in Early Modern English
Dramas
I-Chun Wang
Chapter Four.............................................................................................. 60
Contagion and the City: Writing Boston as a Transatlantic City
in the Early Nineteenth Century
Susan Oliver
Chapter Five .............................................................................................. 75
Slavery Discourse in Rozema’s Mansfield Park:
Reading between the Lines? Or, Crossing the Red Line?
Kuo-Jung Chen
Chapter Six................................................................................................ 96
Islam in Mozambique: A Not-so-Silent Presence
Joseph Abraham Levi
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Chapter Seven.......................................................................................... 122
The Periphery of Empire: The Japanese Community in Shantou
(1904-1937)
Lin-Yi Tseng
Section Two: Cities of Dispersal and Arrival: Diasporas of the Past
and Present
Chapter Eight........................................................................................... 142
The Forbidden Realm: In Camões’s Footsteps from Lisbon to Macau
Isabel Morais
Chapter Nine............................................................................................ 160
Diasporic London: Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali
Yu-Cheng Lee
Chapter Ten ............................................................................................. 174
“Far Shore”: The Post-Apocalyptic Coast in Cormac McCarthy’s
The Road
Joseph C. Murphy
Chapter Eleven ........................................................................................ 192
The Bund Burning Upside Down on Water: Shanghai Obscura
in von Sternberg, Zhang, and Ishiguro
Sheng-Mei Ma
Chapter Twelve........................................................................................ 213
Shared Memory and Cultural Identity of Hoa Refugees after the Republic
of Vietnam’s Fall
Heh Jason Huang and Y. Paul Huo
Chapter Thirteen...................................................................................... 229
Buddhist Nationalism and Transnationalism in Maxine Hong Kingston’s
The Fifth Book of Peace and Russell Leong’s Phoenix Eyes
Walter S. H. Lim
The City and the Ocean vii
Section Three: After-Reflections
Chapter Fourteen ..................................................................................... 248
How Must the Flâneur Change in Order to Read the Twenty-First-Century
City?
Jonathan White
General Bibliography .............................................................................. 265
Chienhang Liu
Contributors............................................................................................. 276
Index........................................................................................................ 280
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