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From hungry ghosts, vampiric babies, and shapeshifting fox spirits to the avenging White Lady of urban legend, for generations, Asian women's roles have been shaped and defined through myth and story. In Unquiet Spirits, Asian writers of horror reflect on the impact of superstition, spirits, and the supernatural in this unique collection of 21 personal essays exploring themes of otherness, identity, expectation, duty, and loss, and leading, ultimately, to understanding and empowerment.… (plus d'informations)
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FYI Review - This book of essays on Asian horror contains the following: -Foreword -Displaced Spirits: Ghosts of the Diaspora by Lee Murray -Fox Daughter by Celine Murray -Some Things Are Dangerous, But Can Be Lived With: The Ghost Baby of Malaysian Mythology by Geneve Flynn -The Substitute by Yi Izzy Yu -The Unvoiced, The Unheard, The Unknown, The Unquiet by Ai Jiang -Thai Spirits & Longing to Belong by I.A.W. McCarthy -Lucky Numbers, or Why 28 > 58 by Eliza Chan -Fallen Leaves, New Soil by Yvette Tan -Lady Nak of Phra Khanong: A Life Inspired by the Female Duality Archetype by Rena Mason -Becoming Ungovernable: Latah, Amok, and Disorder in Indonesia by Nadia Bulkin -Holy Revelations by Grace Chan -Hungry Ghosts in America by Vanessa Fogg -100 Liver by K.P. Kulski -Plant a Cherry Tree Over My Grace by Kivomi Appleton Gaines -Belonging to Fear by Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito -The Demon-Haunted Girl by Christina Sng -The Agency of Modern Kunoiche by Tori Eldridge -Ghost Month in Taiwan by Benebell Wen -tethered chokeholds by doungiai gam -Sightings by Gabriela Lee -Tearing Ourselves Apart: The Nukekubi by Angela Yuriko Smith
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Dedication For our maternal grandmothers, Yee Wai Fong and Yuriko Kayoda, and our mothers, their daughters, Pauline Thomas and Elaine Marie Grant, and all our unquiet sisters.
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To retain the diversity of our Asian diaspora, essays in this book retain the English of preference of individuals authors.
Ghosts have always fascinated me They've long been a staple of horror, of course. They've haunted houses, driving innocent families away. They've waited at graveyards, a silent remind of what once was and what we all will one day face. But it's what makes a ghost that I've always been entranced by. -Foreword, Lisa Kroger
I am six. It's Saturday morning, and my dad is outside mowing the lawns while, in the kitchen, my Kiwi-born Chinese mum gathers three slender joss sticks into both hands and touches the bundle to the element on the stove. -Displaced Spirits: Ghosts of the Diaspora by Lee Murray
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From hungry ghosts, vampiric babies, and shapeshifting fox spirits to the avenging White Lady of urban legend, for generations, Asian women's roles have been shaped and defined through myth and story. In Unquiet Spirits, Asian writers of horror reflect on the impact of superstition, spirits, and the supernatural in this unique collection of 21 personal essays exploring themes of otherness, identity, expectation, duty, and loss, and leading, ultimately, to understanding and empowerment.
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-Foreword
-Displaced Spirits: Ghosts of the Diaspora by Lee Murray
-Fox Daughter by Celine Murray
-Some Things Are Dangerous, But Can Be Lived With: The Ghost Baby of Malaysian Mythology by Geneve Flynn
-The Substitute by Yi Izzy Yu
-The Unvoiced, The Unheard, The Unknown, The Unquiet by Ai Jiang
-Thai Spirits & Longing to Belong by I.A.W. McCarthy
-Lucky Numbers, or Why 28 > 58 by Eliza Chan
-Fallen Leaves, New Soil by Yvette Tan
-Lady Nak of Phra Khanong: A Life Inspired by the Female Duality Archetype by Rena Mason
-Becoming Ungovernable: Latah, Amok, and Disorder in Indonesia by Nadia Bulkin
-Holy Revelations by Grace Chan
-Hungry Ghosts in America by Vanessa Fogg
-100 Liver by K.P. Kulski
-Plant a Cherry Tree Over My Grace by Kivomi Appleton Gaines
-Belonging to Fear by Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito
-The Demon-Haunted Girl by Christina Sng
-The Agency of Modern Kunoiche by Tori Eldridge
-Ghost Month in Taiwan by Benebell Wen
-tethered chokeholds by doungiai gam
-Sightings by Gabriela Lee
-Tearing Ourselves Apart: The Nukekubi by Angela Yuriko Smith