Sideways Developments
Sideways Developments examines Hong Kong Anglophone and Cantophone literature and visual culture to trace the forms of queer and trans survival and flourishing in the Asian century. Contesting the cisgender, heterosexual, linear tropes that constitute developmentalist narratives deployed by superpow...
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2026
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| description | Sideways Developments examines Hong Kong Anglophone and Cantophone literature and visual culture to trace the forms of queer and trans survival and flourishing in the Asian century. Contesting the cisgender, heterosexual, linear tropes that constitute developmentalist narratives deployed by superpowers—from colonial Britain to 20th-century America to a rising China—Cheang argues that sideways aesthetics define the narratives through which the LGBTQ+ community navigates personal and socioeconomic transitions. Through formalist analyses of a range of genres, Cheang reveals the affordances of queer and trans cultures for addressing the question of Hong Kong during its period of promised transition until 2047. In this moment of multiple crises, Sideways Developments offers a timely hermeneutic and theory of solidarity and sustainability. The book tracks how sideways aesthetics have evolved from a feature of LGBTQ+ plots, performance, and nonlinear approaches to space-time to a form of togetherness that links postcolonial Hong Kong with struggles worldwide. Using what Cheang terms intersectional formalism as an analytical tool, the book provides a multilayered examination of the alternative pathways exemplified by queer and trans resilience and regeneration. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1772352026-06-06T05:36:09Z Sideways Developments Cheang, Kai Hang Hong Kong Star Ferry Riots Umbrella Movement Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement Stop Asian Hate Land Back Movement LGBTQ Community Intersectionality Solidarity Transnationalism Posthumanism Cantophone Fiction Global Anglophone Fiction Performance Poetry Drag Coming-of-Age Stories Development Gender Transition Videos Trans TV Moving Images Love Stories Macau Canada United States England Queer Diaspora The Asian Century Postcolonial Studies Global Asias thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies::JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Sideways Developments examines Hong Kong Anglophone and Cantophone literature and visual culture to trace the forms of queer and trans survival and flourishing in the Asian century. Contesting the cisgender, heterosexual, linear tropes that constitute developmentalist narratives deployed by superpowers—from colonial Britain to 20th-century America to a rising China—Cheang argues that sideways aesthetics define the narratives through which the LGBTQ+ community navigates personal and socioeconomic transitions. Through formalist analyses of a range of genres, Cheang reveals the affordances of queer and trans cultures for addressing the question of Hong Kong during its period of promised transition until 2047. In this moment of multiple crises, Sideways Developments offers a timely hermeneutic and theory of solidarity and sustainability. The book tracks how sideways aesthetics have evolved from a feature of LGBTQ+ plots, performance, and nonlinear approaches to space-time to a form of togetherness that links postcolonial Hong Kong with struggles worldwide. Using what Cheang terms intersectional formalism as an analytical tool, the book provides a multilayered examination of the alternative pathways exemplified by queer and trans resilience and regeneration. 2026-06-06T05:36:07Z 2026-06-06T05:36:07Z 2026-06-05T14:12:23Z 2026 book book ONIX_20260605T151934_9780472905911_2 http://www.press.umich.edu https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/113955 9780472905911 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177235 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/113955/1/9780472905911.pdf Michigan State University Press University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.12877800 10.3998/mpub.12877800 aa7f6664-5117-41d8-90f8-c3af56526b92 9780472905911 University of Michigan Press 256 open access |
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