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‘Hours of Morbid Entertainment’ : Self-Irony and Replayed Clichés in Hsu-Ming Teo’s Fiction
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Australia’s Asia, Past and Present : Southeast Asian Backgrounds in Hsu-Ming Teo’s Fiction
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2012
‘Hours of Morbid Entertainment’ : Self-Irony and Replayed Clichés in Hsu-Ming Teo’s Fiction
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This article examines the representation of Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian immigrants in popular Australian fiction. In a close analysis of Hsu-Ming Teo's first novel Love and Vertigo (2000), it draws attention both to the potential and the problems of self-irony in what have chiefly been read as autobiographically inspired texts. Parodic elements may constructively rupture common readerly expectations of an 'Asian past' and hence demand a larger rethinking of prevailing conceptuali-sations of diaspora and diasporic writing. Yet the use of parody has also got its limitations and is symptomatically often edited out in the texts' reception. [Author's abstract]
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‘Hours of Morbid Entertainment’ : Self-Irony and Replayed Clichés in Hsu-Ming Teo’s Fiction
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