Asian diasporas : cultures, identities, representations /

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Imprint:	Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2004.
Description:	208 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Asians -- Foreign countries -- Congresses. Group identity -- Foreign countries -- Congresses. Ethnic groups -- Congresses. Asians in literature -- Congresses. Asian diaspora. Immigrants in literature. Conference papers and proceedings. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5362011

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Varying Form of Title:	Cultures, identities, representations.
Other authors / contributors:	Goh, Robbie B. H., 1964- Wong, Shawn, 1949-
ISBN:	9622096735 (pbk) 9622096727
Notes:	"Essays arose out of a conference on "Asian Diasporas and Cultures" held at the National University of Singapore from 5 to 7 September 2001"--Acknowledgement.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Culture of Asian Diasporas: Integrating/Interrogating (Im)migration, Habitus, Textuality
Chapter 1. The Uncertain Configurations of a Politics of Location: The Intersection of Postcolonial, Feminist, and Nationalist Discourses in Understanding Chinese Diasporic Communities
Chapter 2. Diaspora and Violence: Cultural/Spatial Production, Abjection, and Exchange
Chapter 3. Theorizing Diasporas: Three Types of Consciousness
Chapter 4. Cultural Citizenship in Diaspora: A Study of Chinese Australia
Chapter 5. Mimics without Menace: Interrogating Hybridity in Bharati Mukherjee's Fiction
Chapter 6. The Shadow of Diasporic (Auto)Biography: The Traveling-Self in Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family
Chapter 7. Translating Indian Culture from Diaspora
Chapter 8. Claiming Diaspora in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Joss & Gold
Chapter 9. Writing the Chinese and Southeast Asian Diasporas in Russell Leong's Phoenix Eyes
Chapter 10. Diasporic Communities and Identity Politics: Containing the Political
Notes
References
Contributors
Index

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