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Affect, performativity, and Chinese diasporas in the Caribbean : hopeful futures / Elena Igartuburu García.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Igartuburu García, Elena, 1986- author.
- Series:
- Routledge research in postcolonial literatures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caribbean literature--21st century--History and criticism.
- Caribbean literature.
- Chinese diaspora in literature.
- Affect (Psychology) in literature.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Caribbean Area--In literature.
- Caribbean Area.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 165 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
- Biography/History:
- Elena Igartuburu García is a postdoctoral fellow at Universidad de Oviedo, a member of the research group Intersections, and the research project Solidarities (PID2021-127052OB-I00). She has worked as a teaching associate at UMass Amherst and a visiting scholar at SUNY New Paltz after graduating summa cum laude from the Gender and Diversity PhD program at Universidad de Oviedo in 2015. Her current research focuses on race, gender, movement, and choreography in contemporary U.S. and Caribbean texts from the perspective of Performance Studies and Queer and Gender Studies.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Chinese diasporas in the Americas: theoretical boundaries and textual possibilities
- Between diasporas: community as solidarity
- Melancholic belonging: colonial violence and resolution
- Emerging tensions: coloniality, Bildungsroman, and the limits of hope
- Countervisual narratives: visualities, imaginaries, archives
- Conclusion: Towards a posthuman vocabulary for hopeful futures.
- Notes:
- Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--Universidad de Oviedo, 2015.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 20, 2024).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Igartuburu García, Elena, 1986- Affect, performativity, and Chinese diasporas in the Caribbean
- ISBN:
- 9781003373858
- 1003373852
- 9781003838227
- 1003838227
- 9781003838203
- 1003838200
- Publisher Number:
- 40032292841
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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