This article surveys rumors and `contemporary legends' concerned with the contamination or adulteration of various commodities. The article compares common Euro-American folktales like the `Kentucky Fried Rat' or stories ...

Users of electronic forums often invest quite seriously in their on-line creations and communications because they see them as places to fulfil utopian dreams. However, because people have different notions of 'the good ...

The paper reads Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia as a paradigmatic example of post-imperial ethno-English writing. Kureishi's novel propagates an emancipation of ethnic difference from both the discriminatory ...

This essay explores the mediation of modernity in Bali through wayang puppet theatre and political cartoons. The representational practices of puppeteer and political cartoonist provide revealing comparisons of 'traditional' ...

This paper probes the processes by which commercial television has become an important site for reinventing Hong Kong identity at a key moment of political transition. Analysis foregrounds the complex interplay of local, ...