Comparative Cultural Studies : Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ma, Sheng-mei, Author.

Series:

Comparative Cultural Studies

Comparative cultural studies Asian diaspora and East-West modernity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian diaspora--Asian American authors--History and criticism--Asia.

Asian diaspora.

East and West.

Popular culture.

Civilization, Modern.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ashland, OH, USA Purdue University Press 20120701

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing from Anglo-American, Asian American, and Asian literature as well as J-horror and manga, Chinese cinema and Internet, and the Korean Wave, Sheng-mei Ma's Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity probes into the conjoinedness of West and East, of modernity's illusion and nothing's infinitude.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction Digging to China (or America)

Chapter One: Asian Cell and Horror

Chapter Two: Asian Diaspora Does Vegas

Chapter Three: Diasporic Authors of Children's and Young Adult Books

Chapter Four: A Child's Passing into Asian Diaspora

Chapter Five: yEast for Modern Cannibals

Chapter Six: Bugman in Modernity

Chapter Seven: Kim Ki-duk's Nonperson Films

Chapter Eight: Nakazawa's A-bomb, Tezuka's and Kobayashi's ApologiaNakazawa's A-bomb, Tezuka's Adolf, and Kobayashi's Apologia

Chapter Nine: Orientalism Goes to War in the Twentieth Century

Chapter Ten: Hyperreal Beijing and the 2008 Olympics

Works Cited

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

1-61249-209-6

OCLC:

809762070