03759oam 2200757I 450 991045924070332120200520144314.01-136-89394-61-283-03824-297866130382410-203-84077-110.4324/9780203840771 (CKB)2560000000059041(EBL)958339(OCoLC)798530624(SSID)ssj0000468438(PQKBManifestationID)12140898(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000468438(PQKBWorkID)10498276(PQKB)10419482(OCoLC)709768091(MiAaPQ)EBC958339(Au-PeEL)EBL958339(CaPaEBR)ebr10446787(CaONFJC)MIL303824(EXLCZ)99256000000005904120180706d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDiaspora literature and visual culture Asia in flight /Sheng-mei MaOxon ;New York :Routledge,2011.1 online resource (192 p.)Routledge contemporary Asia series ;27Description based upon print version of record.0-415-85534-9 0-415-59426-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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 English7 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; IndexThis book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora 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 fligRoutledge Contemporary Asia SeriesAmerican literatureAsian American authorsHistory and criticismTheory, etcAsian diasporaAsiansEthnic identityGroup identity in literatureMotion picturesAsiaHistoryOther (Philosophy) in literatureElectronic books.American literatureAsian American authorsHistory and criticismTheory, etc.Asian diaspora.AsiansEthnic identity.Group identity in literature.Motion picturesHistory.Other (Philosophy) in literature.810.9/895Ma Sheng-mei.475688MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459240703321Diaspora literature and visual culture2451682UNINA