Research Catalog

Title

Asian diaspora and East-West modernity / Sheng-mei Ma.

Author

Ma, Sheng-mei

Publication

West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c2012.

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Description

vii, 168 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

In this book, Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity, Sheng-mei Ma analyzes Asian, Asian diaspora, and Orientalist discourse and probes into the conjoinedness of West and East and modernity's illusions. Drawing from Anglo-American, Asian American, and Asian literature, as well as J-horror and manga, Chinese cinema, the internet, and the Korean Wave, Ma's analyses render fluid the two hemispheres of the globe, the twin states of being and nonbeing, and things of value and nonentity. Suspended on the stylistic tightrope between research and poetry, critical analysis and intution, Asian Diaspora restores affect and heart to diaspora in between East and West, at-homeness and exilic attrition. Diaspora, by definition, stems as much from socioeconomic and collective displacement as it points to emotional reaction. This book thus challenges the fossilized conceptualizations in area studies, ontology, and modernism.

Series Statement

Comparative cultural studies

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Comparative cultural studies.

Subject

• Asian diaspora
• East and West
• Popular culture > Asia
• Civilization, Modern
• American literature > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Digging to China (or America) -- Chapter 1. Asian Cell and Horror -- Chapter 2. Asian Diaspora Does Vegas -- Chapter 3. Diasporic Authors of Children's and Young Adult Books -- Chapter 4. A Child's Passing into Asian Diaspora -- Chapter 5. yEast for Modern Cannibals -- Chapter 6. Bugman in Modernity -- Chapter 7. Kim Ki-duk's Nonperson Films -- Chapter 8. Nakazawa's A-bomb, Tezuka's Adolf, and Kobayashi's Apologia -- Chapter 9. Orientation Goes to War in the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 10. Hyperreal Beijing and the 2008 Olympics -- Works Cited -- Index.

ISBN

• 9781557536112 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1557536112 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781612492094 (epdf)
• 1612492096 (epdf)
• 9781612492087 (epub)
• 1612492088 (epub)

LCCN

^^2011049171

OCLC

• 752069935
• SCSB-11779760

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library