Asian Diasporas,9789622096738

Asian Diasporas

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ISBN13: 9789622096738
ISBN10: 9622096735
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-08-31
Publisher(s): Hong Kong Univ Pr
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Summary

Asian diasporas are all too often seen in terms of settlement problems in a host nation, where the focus is on issues of crime, housing, employment, racism and related concerns. The essays in this volume view Asian diasporic movements in the context of gl

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
Introduction The Culture of Asian Diasporas: Integrating/Interrogating (Im)migration, Habitus, Textuality 1(14)
Robbie B.H. Goh
Chapter 1 The Uncertain Configurations of a Politics of Location: The Intersection of Postcolonial, Feminist, and Nationalist Discourses in Understanding Chinese Diasporic Communities 15(18)
Ann Brooks
Chapter 2 Diaspora and Violence: Cultural/Spatial Production, Abjection, and Exchange 33(20)
Robbie B. H. Goh
Chapter 3 Theorizing Diasporas: Three Types of Consciousness 53(24)
Regina Lee
Chapter 4 Cultural Citizenship in Diaspora: A Study of Chinese Australia 77(18)
Wenche Ommundsen
Chapter 5 Mimics without Menace: Interrogating Hybridity in Bharati Mukherjee's Fiction 95(12)
Rebecca Sultana
Chapter 6 The Shadow of Diasporic (Auto)Biography: The Traveling-Self in Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family 107(10)
Carol E. Leon
Chapter 7 Translating Indian Culture from Diaspora 117(14)
Alessandro Monti and Rajeshwar Mittapalli
Chapter 8 Claiming Diaspora in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Joss & Gold 131(18)
Jeffrey F.L. Partridge
Chapter 9 Writing the Chinese and Southeast Asian Diasporas in Russell Leong's Phoenix Eyes 149(12)
Walter S.H. Lim
Chapter 10 Diasporic Communities and Identity Politics: Containing the Political 161(16)
Ryan Bishop and John Phillips
Notes 177(8)
References 185(14)
Contributors 199(4)
Index 203

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