Asian diasporas : cultures, identities, representations /

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.

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Other Authors: Goh, Robbie B. H., 1964-, Wong, Shawn, 1949-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hong Kong : Honk Kong University Press, ©2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • The culture of Asian diasporas : integrating/interrogating (im)migration, habitus, textuality / Robbie B.H. Goh
  • The uncertain configurations of a politics of location : the intersection of postcolonial, feminist, and nationalist discourses in understanding Chinese diasporic communities / Ann Brooks
  • Diaspora and violence : cultural/spatial production, abjection, and exchange
  • Robbie B.H. Goh
  • Theorizing diasporas : three types of consciousness / Regina Lee
  • Cultural citizenship in diaspora : a study of Chinese Australia / Wenche Ommundsen
  • Mimics without menace : interrogating hybridity in Bharati Mukherjee's fiction / Rebecca Sultana
  • The shadow of diasporic (auto)biography : the traveling-self in Michael Ondaatje's Running in the family / Carol E. Leon
  • Translating Indian culture from diaspora / Alessandro Monti and Rajeshwar Mittapalli
  • Claiming diaspora in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Joss & gold / Jeffrey F.L. Partridge
  • Writing the Chinese and Southeast Asian diasporas in Russell Leong's Phoenix eyes / Walter S.H. Lim
  • Diasporic communities and identity politics : containing the political / Ryan Bishop and John Phillips.