Asian Diasporas: Cultures, Indentity, Representations

by Robbie B. H. Goh (Editor), Shawn Wong (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789622096738
Publisher:	Hong Kong University Press
Publication date:	04/06/2004
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	6.26(w) x 8.94(h) x 0.49(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements	vii
	Introduction: The Culture of Asian Diasporas: Integrating/Interrogating (Im)migration, Habitus, Textuality	1
Chapter 1	The Uncertain Configurations of a Politics of Location: The Intersection of Postcolonial, Feminist, and Nationalist Discourses in Understanding Chinese Diasporic Communities	15
Chapter 2	Diaspora and Violence: Cultural/Spatial Production, Abjection, and Exchange	33
Chapter 3	Theorizing Diasporas: Three Types of Consciousness	53
Chapter 4	Cultural Citizenship in Diaspora: A Study of Chinese Australia	77
Chapter 5	Mimics without Menace: Interrogating Hybridity in Bharati Mukherjee's Fiction	95
Chapter 6	The Shadow of Diasporic (Auto)Biography: The Traveling-Self in Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family	107
Chapter 7	Translating Indian Culture from Diaspora	117
Chapter 8	Claiming Diaspora in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Joss & Gold	131
Chapter 9	Writing the Chinese and Southeast Asian Diasporas in Russell Leong's Phoenix Eyes	149
Chapter 10	Diasporic Communities and Identity Politics: Containing the Political	161
	Notes	177
	References	185
	Contributors	199
	Index	203