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Banana bending : Asian-Australian and Asian-Canadian literatures / Tseen-Ling Khoo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Khoo, Tseen, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asian Canadians in literature.
- Australian literature--Asian Australian authors--History and criticism.
- Australian literature.
- Asian Australians in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The book examines the limits and possibilities for these diasporic literatures in multicultural societies and their placement in relation to national literatures.
- Contents:
- "A Chink in the Armour": Asian-Australian Space
- "Spitting in the Soup": Asian-Canadian Space
- Colouring In: Possibilities of Nationalism in Diaspora
- "At Home in Your Embarrassment": Boundaries of Community and Ethnicity
- Patriotism, War, and Other National Desires: Asian Masculinities in Progress
- Emerging Extravagance in Diasporic Asian Women's Writing
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-216) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-70540-7
- 9786612705403
- 988-220-033-8
- OCLC:
- 651001993
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