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Record Nr.

UNINA9910595039303321

Titolo

Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora / / edited by Melody Yunzi Li, Robert T. Tally Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783031101571

303110157X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (181 pages)

Collana

Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies, , 2634-5188

Disciplina

296.382

Soggetti

Oriental literature

Literature

Literature - Philosophy

Space

Culture

Emigration and immigration

Emigration and immigration - Social aspects

Asian Literature

World Literature

Literary Theory

Space and Place in Culture

Diaspora Studies

Sociology of Migration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction. Remapping the Homeland -- Chapter 2: The geography helps”: Affective Geographies and Maps in Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers -- Chapter 3: From Rust Belt to Belleville: Two Recent Films on Chinese Migrant Sex Workers in Paris -- Chapter 4: Borderscape, Exile, Trafficking: The Geopoetics of Ying Liang’s A Family Tour and Bai Xue’s The Crossing -- Chapter 5: Displaced Nostalgia and Literary déjà vu: On the Quasi-archaic Style of Li Yongping’s Retribution: The Jiling Chronicles -- Chapter 6: Literary



Exile in the Third Space: Ha Jin’s Critique of Nation-States in The Free Life -- Chapter 7: Remapping New York’s Chinatowns in the Works of Eric Liu and Ha Jin -- Chapter 8: The Holy Hole in Chinese Patriarchal Culture: Going Pop and South -- Chapter 9: This Place Which Is Not One: Diaspora, Topophrenia, and the World System. .

Sommario/riassunto

In various ways, Chinese diasporic communities seek to connect and re-connect with their “homelands” in literature, film, and visual culture. The essays in Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora examine how diasporic bodies and emotions interact with space and place, as well as how theories of affect change our thinking of diaspora. Questions of borders and border-crossing, not to mention the public and private spheres, in diaspora literature and film raise further questions about mapping and spatial representation and the affective and geographical significance of the push-and-pull movement in diasporic communities. The unique experience is represented differently by different authors across texts and media. In an age of globalization, in “the Chinese Century,” the spatial representation and cultural experiences of mobility, displacement, settlement, and hybridity become all the more urgent. The essays in this volume respond to this urgency, and they help to frame the study of Chinese diaspora and culture today.