| Description |
x, 182 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Tendencies, identities, texts, cultures |
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Tendencies, identities, texts, cultures
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| Contents |
Introduction. The third scenario -- 1. Sliding against the masks of newer selves: hyphenation and Mestiza - Jasmine, the Woman Warrior, and Borderlands -- 2. Notes of a native speaker: becoming Asian-American - The Joy Luck Club, Typical American, Bone, and The Wedding Banquet -- 3. This body is your only real home: migrancy and identity - Dreaming in Cuban, Native Speaker, Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers, and My Year of Meat -- 4. We need to speak even with our mouths on the ground: becoming Asian-Canadian - Disappearing Moon Café, Diamond Grill, and Chorus of Mushrooms -- 5. Knowing your place: becoming Black/Asian-British (1) - Song of the Boatwoman, The Map-Makers of Spitalfields, and Fruit of the Lemon -- 6. Britain's children without a home: becoming Black/Asian-British (2) - The Buddha of Suburbia, Anita and Me, Bhaji on the Beach, and East is East |
| Summary |
"Cultural fictions - texts written from the perspective of the edge - are the focus of this exciting and enlightening book. The author examines the formations of narratives of identity in contemporary 'borderline' fictions and films. The work of migrant and marginalised groups located at the boundaries of nations, cultures, classes, ethnicities, sexualities and genders, is explored through an intricate weaving of theory with textual analysis. Organised around the themes of memory, tradition and 'belonging', the book proposes the space of 'migrant' writing - an emerging third space - as one that challenges fixed assumptions about identity. The cross-cultural range, including texts from British, Caribbean, Chinese-American, Indo-Caribbean, Canadian, Cuban and Indian writers; the original discussion of authors such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Gloria Anzaldua, Amy Tan, Gish Jen, Hanif Kureishi and Chang-rae Lee; and engagement with the work of theorists including Bakhtin, Freud, Lyotard, de Certeau, Deleuze and Guattari, produces a significant contribution to the broadening definitions of ethnicity and the 'post-colonial'. Works explored include Jasmine, Borderlands, The Joy Luck Club, The Wedding Banquet, Dreaming in Cuban, My Year of Meat, Buddha of Suburbia and East is East. These contemporary texts and films will make this book accessible to a broad range of readers." -- BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page-174 |
| Subject |
Narration (Rhetoric)
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Minorities in literature.
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Popular literature -- History and criticism.
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Marginality, Social, in literature.
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Ethnicity in literature.
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Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Minorities in motion pictures.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| LC no. |
2001369168 |
| ISBN |
0748609512 paperback |
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