Mapping spectral tropicality in The Maid and Return to Pontianak

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 24-33

  Harvey, Sophia Siddique ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Folk beliefs; Horror; Return to Pontianak; Singapore; Spectral tropicality; The Maid; The uncanny

Indexed keywords

IDEOLOGY; IMAGE; LANDSCAPE; MAPPING; POST-COLONIALISM; SPECTRUM; TROPICAL FOREST;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDONESIA; PONTIANAK; SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA]; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WEST KALIMANTAN;

EID: 41049093067     PISSN: 01297619     EISSN: 14679493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9493.2008.00317.x     Document Type: Article

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