Contents

• Introduction: The Gothic visage of Asian narratives / Andrew Hock Soon Ng
• Postcolonial Asian Gothic literature.Naipaul, "Muslims" and the living dead / Wendy O’Shea-Meddour
• "Where meaning collapses" : Tunka Halim’s Dark Demon Rising as global Gothic / Glennis Byron
• Ghosts of a demolished cityscape : Gothic experiments in Singaporean fiction /Tamara S. Wagner
• Seeing through the evil eye : Meiling Jin’s Caribbean counter Gothic in Gifts from My Grandfather / Paula K. Sato
• Encrypted ancestries : Kazuo Ishigoro’s The Remains of the Day and its uncanny inheritances /Hilary Thompson
• Asian American Gothic literature.Sky Lee’s Disappearing Moon Cafe : a testimony of incorporation /Nieves Pascual Soler
• Ghostly rhetoric of autobiography : Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior as American Gothic narrative /Carol Mejia-LaPerle
• Asian American hyphen goes Gothic : ghosts and doubles in Maxine Hong Kingston and lê thi diem thúy /Belinda Kong
• Gothic aesthetics of entanglement and endangerment in David Henry Hwang’s The Sound of a Voice and The House of Sleeping Beauties / Kimberly Jew
• Gothic tradition in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Turkish literature.Reading Shi Zhecun’s "Yaksha" against the Shanghai modern /Hongbing Zhang
• "Disappearing with the Double" : Xu Xi’s The Stone Window /Amy Lai
• Asian cell and horror /Shen-mei Ma
• Western Eastern : decoding hybridity and cyberzen Gothic in Vampire Hunter D (1985) /Wayne Stein, John Edgar Browning
• Grotesque and Gothic comedy in Turkish shadow plays /Ayse Didem Uslu