Kelly Yin Nga Tse
Biographic Data
| ID | 642447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelly Yin Nga Tse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelly Yin Nga |
| FAMILY NAME | Tse |
| SIGNATURE | TSE K Y N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4143-3633 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Looking Awry in Timothy Mo
In a conflict-ridden world, how might the contemporary novel witness violence? The present article pursues this question by turning to British Chinese author Timothy Mo's novel The Redundancy of Courage (1991), an allegorical account of Indonesia's capture of East Timor (1975–99). In its expression and form, Mo's novel inscribes witnessing as an art of looking awry—an imperfect yet imperative undertaking. The discussion weaves together the charac…
Perilous Pacific
While deadly scenes of air raids and land battles have dominated the historical archive of the war in Vietnam, commonly assumed to last from 1955 to 1975, not much systematic attention has been paid to the thanatic aspects of refugees’ oceanic exodus, which can help revise the temporal and spatial frames of the Asian conflict. As an attempt to address this critical lacuna, this essay examines fatalities at sea in refugee narratives pertaining to …
Whither the World? The Discourse of World Literature
Queering imperial history
Drawing on the postcolonial discourse of reconciliation, this article critically examines The Gift of Rain (2007) by Malaysian Chinese writer Tan Twan Eng. It attends to the reparative work that the novel performs in relation to Japanese imperialism in Asia, particularly the Japanese occupation of British Malaya (1941–1945). It argues that Tan’s text, with its investment in the Buddhist-inflected queer passion between its Anglo-Chinese protagonis…
Queering imperial history
Drawing on the postcolonial discourse of reconciliation, this article critically examines The Gift of Rain (2007) by Malaysian Chinese writer Tan Twan Eng. It attends to the reparative work that the novel performs in relation to Japanese imperialism in Asia, particularly the Japanese occupation of British Malaya (1941–1945). It argues that Tan’s text, with its investment in the Buddhist-inflected queer passion between its Anglo-Chinese protagonis…
Whither the World? The Discourse of World Literature
Queering imperial history
Drawing on the postcolonial discourse of reconciliation, this article critically examines The Gift of Rain (2007) by Malaysian Chinese writer Tan Twan Eng. It attends to the reparative work that the novel performs in relation to Japanese imperialism in Asia, particularly the Japanese occupation of British Malaya (1941–1945). It argues that Tan’s text, with its investment in the Buddhist-inflected queer passion between its Anglo-Chinese protagonis…
Perilous Pacific
While deadly scenes of air raids and land battles have dominated the historical archive of the war in Vietnam, commonly assumed to last from 1955 to 1975, not much systematic attention has been paid to the thanatic aspects of refugees’ oceanic exodus, which can help revise the temporal and spatial frames of the Asian conflict. As an attempt to address this critical lacuna, this essay examines fatalities at sea in refugee narratives pertaining to …
Looking Awry in Timothy Mo
In a conflict-ridden world, how might the contemporary novel witness violence? The present article pursues this question by turning to British Chinese author Timothy Mo's novel The Redundancy of Courage (1991), an allegorical account of Indonesia's capture of East Timor (1975–99). In its expression and form, Mo's novel inscribes witnessing as an art of looking awry—an imperfect yet imperative undertaking. The discussion weaves together the charac…
History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (1 works) · Asian Studies and History (1 works)