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UNINA9910459240703321 |
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Autore |
Ma Sheng-mei |
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Titolo |
Diaspora literature and visual culture : Asia in flight / / Sheng-mei Ma |
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Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-89394-6 |
1-283-03824-2 |
9786613038241 |
0-203-84077-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge contemporary Asia series ; ; 27 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - Asian American authors - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
Asian diaspora |
Asians - Ethnic identity |
Group identity in literature |
Motion pictures - Asia - History |
Other (Philosophy) in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Asian diaspora visual culture; 1 Shadow's shadow in visual culture: Anime's doll, alien's home; 2 Inter-Asia unbilical love in visual culture; 3 Chinese cinema's global dream, multilinguality, and dialect's wake; 4 Found(l)ing Taiwanese: From Chinese fatherland to Japanese Okasan; 5 Genesis by the sword and special effects in Korean TV costume drama; Part II Asian diaspora literature; 6 Chinese graffiti: Poetic out from Muk Lau, Tongyan Gaai, and House of English |
7 Italic and indiscernible Asianness in Asian diaspora literature8 Tears of Asian diaspora in The Namesake: Empathetic nostalgia from an eyehole; 9 Eileen Chang and Zhang Ailing: A bilingual orphan; 10 Chink chic, a.k.a., shitnoiserie; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora |
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culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-mei Ma's engaging text discusses issues of self and its relationship with Asian Diaspora culture in the global twenty-first century. Using examples from Asia, Asian America, and Asian Diaspora from the West, the book weaves a narrative that challenges the twenty-first century triumphal discourse of Asia and argues that given the long shadow cast across modern film and literature, this upward mobility is inescapably escapist, a flig |
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