Diaspora literature and visual culture : Asia in flight
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Diaspora literature and visual culture : Asia in flight
(Routledge contemporary Asia series, 27)
Routledge, 2011
- : hbk
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-180) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-mei Ma's engaging text discusses issues of self and its relationship with Asian Diaspora culture in the global twenty-first century.
Using examples from Asia, Asian America, and Asian Diaspora from the West, the book weaves a narrative that challenges the twenty-first century triumphal discourse of Asia and argues that given the long shadow cast across modern film and literature, this upward mobility is inescapably escapist, a flight from itself; Asia's stunning self-transformation is haunted by self-alienation. The chapters discuss a wealth of topics, including Asianness, Orientalism, and Asian American identity, drawing on a variety of pop culture sources from The Matrix Trilogy to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. This book forms an analysis of the new idea of Asian Diaspora that cuts across area, ethnicity, and nation, incorporating itself into the contemporary global culture whilst retaining a distinct Asian flavor.
Covering the mediums of literature, film, and visual cultures, this book will be of immense interest to scholars and students of Asian studies and literature, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and film.
Table of Contents
Introduction I. Asian Diaspora Visual Culture 1. Shadow's Shadow in Visual Culture: Anime's Doll, Alien's Home 2. Inter-Asia Unbilical Love in Visual Culture 3. Chinese Cinema's Global Dream, Multilinguality and Dialect's Wake 4. Found(l)ing Taiwanese: From Chinese Fatherland to Japanese Okasan 5. Genesis by the Sword and Special Effects in Korean TV Costume Drama II. Asian Diaspora Literature 6. Chinese Graffiti: Poetic Out from Muk Lau, Tongyan Gaai, and House of English 7. Italic and Indiscernible Asianness in Asian Diaspora Literature 8. Tears of Asian Diaspora: Empathetic Nostalgia from an Eyehole 9. Eileen Chang and Zhang Ailing: A Bilingual Orphan 10. Chink Chic, a.k.a., Shitnoiserie
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