{"product_id":"sinophone-anglophone-cultural-duet-9783319580333","title":"Sinophone-Anglophone Cultural Duet","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the paradox of China and the United States’ literary and visual relationships, morphing between a happy duet and a contentious duel in fiction, film, poetry, comics, and opera from both sides of the Pacific. In the 21st century where tension between the two superpowers escalates, a gaping lacuna lies in the cultural sphere of Sino-Anglo comparative cultures. By focusing on a “Sinophone-Anglophone” relationship rather than a “China-US” one, Sheng-mei Ma eschews realpolitik, focusing on the two languages and the cross-cultural spheres where, contrary to Kipling’s twain, East and West forever meet, like a repetition compulsion bordering on neurosis over the self and its cultural other. Indeed, the coupling of the two—duet-cum-duel—is so predictable that each seems attracted to and repulsed by its dark half, semblable, (in)compatible for their shared larger-than-life-ness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52916519403799,"sku":null,"price":13430.27,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/6918\/8119\/files\/9783319580333.jpg?v=1781591037","url":"https:\/\/payment.letskitaboo.com\/te\/products\/sinophone-anglophone-cultural-duet-9783319580333","provider":"Kitaboo One eStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}