Unquiet Spirits

Nadia Bulkin: Becoming Ungovernable: Latah, Amok, and Disorder in Indonesia.Comparing male versus female "berserker" states in Indonesia.Grace Chan: Holy Revelations.Juxtaposition of Christian spirituality and Asian expectations in the Asian-Australian immigrant experience. Eliza Chan: Lucky Numbers, Or Why 28 > 58East versus west numerology and the converging influences of superstition. doungjai gam: tethered chokeholdsThe naphiron (tree with women-fruit to be consumed) and conflicting Thai American expectations of filial duty.Tori Eldridge: The Agency of Modern Kunoichi: The Women of Ninja Stealth and PerseveranceEmpowerment and agency of the Kunochi warrior woman: historical and modern perspectives. Geneve Flynn: Some Things Are Dangerous, But Can Be Lived With: The Ghost Baby of Malaysian MythologyA personal experience of the kwee kia ghost baby as a symbol of generational grief.Vanessa Fogg: Hungry Ghosts in AmericaExpectation, education, and self-actualisation observed through the lens of Asian hungry ghost mythology.Kiyomi Appleton Gaines: Plant a Cherry Tree over my GraveJapanese mountain witches and notions of motherhood and monstrous. Ai Jiang: The Unvoiced, The Unheard, The Unknown, The UnquietExploring Asian traditional expectations of womanhood and identity. K.P. Kulski: 100 LiversIdentity and loss as seen through the shapeshifting kumiho (Korean Fox spirit)Gabriela Lee: SightingsPredation and consumption of Asian women as evidenced in current events and the White Lady of Balete Drive (Philippines).JAW McCarthy: Thai Spirits & Longing to BelongKrasue, pret, and phi pop, and lived experience of identity and otherness at the intersection cultureRena Mason: Lady Nak of Phra Khanong: A Life Inspired by the Female Duality ArchetypeThai ghosts, phi, Mae Nak (the lady of Pra Khanong), loss, expectation, and filial guilt. Lee Murray: Displaced Spirits: Ghosts of the DiasporaDisplacement, generational loss, and persecution as hungry ghost spirits. Celine Murray: Fox DaughterThrough the huli jing (Chinese fox spirit) a young woman reconciles identity, otherness, and belonging. Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito: Belonging to FearHorror and myth as an integral part of the Asian immigrant experience.Angela Yuriko Smith: Tearing Ourselves Apart: The NukekubiDisplacement, sacrifice, and authenticity as experienced through the disembodied head of the nukekubiChristina Sng: The Demon-Haunted GirlThe Pontianak as a symbol of vengeance for centuries of abuse and predation of Asian women. Yvette Tan: Fallen Leaves, New SoilBlending of Christian and Chinoy cultural values as observed in a Filipino upbringingBenebell Wen: Ghost Month in TaiwanA family suffering generations of longing and loss is rescued from the clutches of hungry ghost demons. Yi Izzy Yu: The SubstituteMarriage and our authentic selves as viewed through the tisigui (substitute-seeking ghost). A personal journey.

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essays; Asian; women; horror; spirituality; identity; chinese