| Description |
[vii], 208 pages : illustrations ; 23cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : the culture of Asian diasporas : integrating/interrogating (im)migration, habitus, textuality / Robbie B. H. Goh -- Ch. 1. The uncertain configurations of a politics of location : the intersection of postcolonial, feminist, and nationalist discourses in understanding Chinese diasporic communities / Ann Brooks -- Ch. 2. Diaspora and violence : cultural/spatial production, abjection, and exchange / Robbie B. H. Goh -- Ch. 3. Theorizing diasporas : three types of consciousness / Regina Lee -- Ch. 4. Cultural citizenship in diaspora : a study of Chinese Australia / Wenche Ommundsen -- Ch. 5. Mimics without menace : interrogating hybridity in Bharati Mukherjee's fiction / Rebecca Sultana -- Ch. 6. The shadow of diasporic (auto)biography : the traveling-self in Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family / Carol E. Leon -- Ch. 7. Translating Indian culture from diaspora / Alessandro Monti and Rajeshwar Mittapalli -- Ch. 8. Claiming diaspora in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Joss & Gold / Jeffrey F. L. Partridge -- Ch. 9. Writing the Chinese and Southeast Asian diasporas in Russell Leong's Phoenix Eyes / Walter S. H. Lim -- Ch. 10. Diasporic communities and identity politics : containing the political / Ryan Bishop and John Phillips |
| Summary |
The essays in this volume view Asian diasporic movements in the context of globalization and global citizenship, in which multiple cultural allegiances, influences and claims together create complex negotiations of identity |
| Notes |
"Essays arose out of a conference on "Asian Diasporas and Cultures" held at the National University of Singapore from 5 to 7 September 2001"--acknowledgements |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-198) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Oriental literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Oriental literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Ethnicity in literature.
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Immigrants in literature.
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Asian diaspora -- Congresses.
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Immigrants in literature -- Congresses.
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Oriental literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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| SUBJECT |
Asia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85008606 -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00002751
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Goh, Robbie B. H., 1964-
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Wong, Shawn, 1949-
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| LC no. |
2004400144 |
| ISBN |
9622096727 hardback |
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9622096735 paperback |
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