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Culture, identity, commodity : diasporic Chinese literatures in English / edited by Tseen Khoo and Kam Louie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Khoo, Tseen, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Chinese American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Australian literature--Chinese authors--History and criticism.
- Australian literature.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Australian literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (328 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Established and emerging scholars offer timely discussions of "diasporic Chinese studies," drawing on transnational, postcolonial, globalisation, and racialisation theories. The collection examines what is at stake in the consideration of diasporic literatures and the connections and fissures emerging in these new critical terrains.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contributors""; ""INTRODUCTION: Culture, Identity, Commodity: Testing Diasporic Literary Boundaries""; ""SECTION 1: COMMODIFYING DESIRES""; ""1. ""Peeking Ducks"" and ""Food Pornographers"": Commodifying Culinary Chinese Americanness""; ""2. Market Forces and Powerful Desires: Reading Evelyn Lau's Cultural Labor""; ""3. ""There're a Billion Bellies Out There"": Commodity Fetishism, The Uber-Oriental, and the Geopolitics of Desire in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly""; ""SECTION 2: DIASPORIC RE-VISITATIONS""
- ""4. ""How Taste Remembers Life"": Diasporic Memory and Community in Fred Wah's Poetry""""5. ""Where are you from?"": New Imaginings of Identity in Chinese�Australian Writing""; ""6. The Problem of Diaspora: On Chinese Canadian Cultural Production in English""; ""SECTION 3: SEXING DIASPORA""; ""7. ""Forays into Acts of Transformation"": Queering Chinese Canadian Diasporic Fictions""; ""8. Decentring Orientalist and Ocker Masculinities in Birds of Passage""; ""9. Exporting Feminism: Jade Snow Wong's Global Tour""; ""SECTION 4: THE ""OTHER"" SELF""
- ""10. Sleep No More: Ouyang Yu's Wake-up Call to Multicultural Australia""""11. On Ascriptive and Acquisitional Americanness: The Accidental Asian and the Illogic of Assimilation""; ""12. ""Many Degrees of Dark and Light"": Sliding the Scale of Whiteness with Simone Lazaroo""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-7327-5
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