"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. Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-198) and index.
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.
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