A wide-ranging scholarly consideration of the martial arts.
D. S. Farrer is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Guam and the author of Shadows of the Prophet: Martial Arts and Sufi Mysticism. John Whalen-Bridge is Associate Professor of English at the National University of Singapore and the editor of several books, including (with Gary Storhoff) American Buddhism as a Way of Life, also published by SUNY Press.
List of Illustrations
p. ix
Acknowledgments
p. xi
Introduction: Martial Arts, Transnationalism, and Embodied Knowledge
p. 1
Embodied Fantasy
Some Versions of the Samurai: The Budd Core of DeLillo's Running Dog
p. 29
The Fantasy Corpus of Martial Arts, or, The "Communication" of Bruce Lee
p. 61
Body, Masculinity, and Representation in Chinese Martial Arts Films
p. 97
How the Social Body Trains
The Training of Perception in Javanese Martial Arts
p. 123
Thai Boxing: Networking of a Polymorphous Clinch
p. 145
Transnational Self-Construction
From Floor to Stage: Kalarippayattu Travels
p. 161
The Oriental Martial Arts as Hybrid Totems, Together with Orientalized Avatars
p. 185
Coffee-Shop Gods: Chinese Martial Arts of the Singapore Diaspora
p. 203
List of Contributors
p. 239
Index
p. 243
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