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Asian diasporas : cultures, identities, representations / edited by Robbie B.H. Goh and Shawn Wong.

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Asian diasporas : cultures, identities, representations / edited by Robbie B.H. Goh and Shawn Wong.
Publication
Hong Kong : Honk Kong University Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Goh, Robbie B. H., 1964-
  • Wong, Shawn, 1949-
Description
vi, 208 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Asian diaspora > Congresses
  • Immigrants in literature > Congresses
  • Oriental literature > History and criticism > Congresses
Note
  • Papers originally presented at the conference on "Asian diasporas and cultures" held at the National University of Singapore, Sept. 5-7, 2001.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-198) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The culture of Asian diasporas : integrating/interrogating (im)migration, habitus, textuality / Robbie B.H. Goh -- The uncertain configurations of a politics of location : the intersection of postcolonial, feminist, and nationalist discourses in understanding Chinese diasporic communities / Ann Brooks -- Diaspora and violence : cultural/spatial production, abjection, and exchange -- Robbie B.H. Goh -- Theorizing diasporas : three types of consciousness / Regina Lee -- Cultural citizenship in diaspora : a study of Chinese Australia / Wenche Ommundsen -- Mimics without menace : interrogating hybridity in Bharati Mukherjee's fiction / Rebecca Sultana -- The shadow of diasporic (auto)biography : the traveling-self in Michael Ondaatje's Running in the family / Carol E. Leon -- Translating Indian culture from diaspora / Alessandro Monti and Rajeshwar Mittapalli -- Claiming diaspora in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Joss & gold / Jeffrey F.L. Partridge -- Writing the Chinese and Southeast Asian diasporas in Russell Leong's Phoenix eyes / Walter S.H. Lim -- Diasporic communities and identity politics : containing the political / Ryan Bishop and John Phillips.
ISBN
  • 9622096735 (pbk.)
  • 9622096727 (hardback)
LCCN
^^2004400144
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library