'Chinese migrant communities have reinvented their histories in many contexts, but the process of globalization has accelerated and diversified this phenomenon. Their fluid identities, innovative modernities, and generative talents in overcoming prejudice and multiple dislocations offer powerful examples of creative resistance to placebound traditions and nationalist histories. As the velocity of exchange in global media and commerce steadily increases, emergent and dynamic diasporas are increasingly influential in transnational discourses.
This volume engages cultural representations of the subjectivities and loyalties of Chinese migrant communities, including analyses of aesthetic texts, as well as theoretical approaches in cultural studies. The book situates diasporic agency as an historical phenomenon with far-reaching political and social implications for both home and host societies and as a major site of contemporary cultural developments. By assembling a variety of regional, temporal, and disciplinary perspectives, it interrogates current notions of the diasporic subject, raising questions about respective ideological roots and cultural repositories as well as extensions and transgressions of new aesthetic vocabularies.' - from publisher's website.
Includes notes on contributors, a glossary, a bibliography and an index.
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English
2009
285
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anthology
Introduction - Andrea RIEMENSCHNITTER, Deborah L. MADSEN
Section 1: Diasporic Negotiations
1. Writing across Borders: Hong Kong's 1950s and the Present - LEUNG Ping-kwan, 也斯
2. Diaspora, Sojourn, Migration: The Transnational Dynamics of 'Chineseness' - Deborah L. MADSEN
3. Positioning at the Margins: The Infra-Power of Middle-Class Hong Kong - Helen F. SIU, 蕭鳳霞
4. The Yellow and the Black: Race and Diasporic Identity in Sinophone Chinese American Literature - Sau-ling C. Wong
Section 2: Historical Legacies
5. Between Sovereignty and Capitalism: The Historical Experiences of Migrant Chinese - Prasenjit DUARA, 杜赞奇
6. Exile in China during the Han Dynasty - Nicholas ZUFFEREY
7. Fantasizing the Homeland: Ji Yun's Recollections of Exile at the Western Frontier (1769–70) - Roland ALTENBURGER
8. The Voyage to Hong Kong: Bildungsroman in Hong Kong Literature of the 1950s - WONG Shuk-han Mary, 黃淑嫻
Section 3: Re-storying Diaspora
9. Another Diaspora: Chineseness and the Traffic in Women in Fruit Chan's Durian Durian - Pheng CHEAH
10. Queer Transnationalism: Literary Anthropologies from the Contact Zone - Andrea RIEMENSCHNITTER
11. Women and Diaspora: Zhao Shuxia's Novel Sai Jinhua and the Quest for Female Agency - Kathrin ENSINGER
12. Double Diaspora? 'Re-Presenting' Singaporeans Abroad - Tamara WAGNER
Diasporic Histories: Cultural Archives of Chinese Transnationalism
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