Transpacific Cartographies : Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States / Melody Yunzi Li.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Li, Melody Yunzi, Author.

Series:

Asian American Studies Today

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.) : 8 B-W illustrations

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Transpacific Cartographies examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-US tensions. Focusing on cultural productions of the Chinese diaspora from the 1990s to the present -- including novels by the Sinophone writers Yan Geling (The Criminal Lu Yanshi), Shi Yu (New York Lover), Chen Qian (Listen to the Caged Bird Sing), and Rong Rong (Notes of a Couple), as well as by the Anglophone writer Ha Jin (A Free Life; A Map of Betrayal), selected TV shows (Beijinger in New York; The Way We Were), and online literature -- Melody Yunzi Li argues that the characters in these stories create multilayered maps that transcend the territorial boundaries that make finding a home in a foreign land a seemingly impossible task. In doing so, these "maps" outline a transpacific landscape that reflects the psycho-geography of homemaking for diasporic communities. Intersecting with and bridging Sinophone studies, Chinese American studies, and diaspora studies and drawing on theories of literary cartography, Transpacific Cartographies demonstrates how these "maps" offer their readers different paths for finding a sense of home no matter where they are.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1 Mapping Experiences of De/Reterritorialization: Ha Jins A Map of Betrayal

2 Cartographing Carceral Dystopia in the Mao Era Yan Gelings The Criminal Lu Yanshi

3 Affective Mapping of Touristic Diasporic Experience

4 The Palimpsestic Map of the American and Chinese Dreams Contested Sites in Overseas Chinese Immigrant Stories

Coda: Charting an Online Chinese Diasporic Literary Map

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jan 2024)

ISBN:

1-9788-2936-1

OCLC:

1419788812