Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Permissions; Chapter One Introduction: Departure for a Detour; Chapter Two The Poetics of Cultural Transrelation: A Diversion of Identity; Chapter Three The Politics of Re-homing: Negotiation of Cultural Dwellings; Chapter Four The Problematics of Translocal Place: Cultural Passage beyond the Border Politics; Chapter Five Alter/native Stories of Memory and Amnesia: A Mnemonic Inquiry; Chapter Six Against the Grain of Cultural Exoticism: The Other Question; Chapter Seven Styling Diasporic Carnival: Performance of Difference
Chapter Eight Conclusion: Journey without MapsBibliography; Index
Summary
This volume provides a new way of reading that helps us discern some previously unnoticed features of Asian diaspora poetry and highlights how poetry plays a significant role in mediating and defining cross-cultural and transnational positions
