LEADER 05378nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910811906503321 005 20230721032112.0 010 $a94-012-0548-5 010 $a1-4356-2714-8 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401205481 035 $a(CKB)1000000000483716 035 $a(EBL)556783 035 $a(OCoLC)649903311 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000121311 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12010026 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000121311 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10092866 035 $a(PQKB)11780758 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556783 035 $a(OCoLC)191674933$z(OCoLC)649903311$z(OCoLC)764536151 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401205481 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556783 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380324 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000483716 100 $a20080208d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aChina fictions, English language$b[electronic resource] $eliterary essays in diaspora, memory, story /$fedited by A. Robert Lee 210 $aAmsterdam $cRodopi$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (351 p.) 225 1 $aText,$x0927-5754 ;$v54 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-2351-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tPreliminary Material -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tChina Fictions, After China Fictions -- $t?The beginning is hers?: The Political and Literary Legacies of Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan /$rHelena Grice -- $tAsymmetries: Loss and Forgiveness in the Novels of Amy Tan /$rCynthia F. Wong -- $tBad Boy, Godfather, Storyteller: The China Fictions of Frank Chin /$rA. Robert Lee -- $tBearing The Diasporic Burden: Representations of Suicide in SKY Lee?s Disappearing Moon Café, Fae Myenne Ng?s Bone, and Hsu-Ming Teo?s Love and Vertigo /$rDeborah L. Madsen -- $tChinatown as Diaspora Space in SKY Lee?s Disappearing Moon Cafeand Wayson Choy?s The Jade Peony /$rRocío G. Davis -- $tCanadian Border Crossings: Evelyn Lau and Larissa Lai /$rMary Condé -- $tThe Earth?s Revenge: Nature, Transfeminism and Diaspora in Larissa Lai?s Salt Fish Girl /$rNicholas Birns -- $tDiaspora Beyond Millennium: Brian Castro, Ouyang Yu, and Chinese Australia /$rNicholas Birns -- $tChildhood and The Cultural Memory of Hong Kong: Martin Booth?s Gweiloand Po Wah Lam?s The Locust Hunter /$rElaine Yee Lin Ho -- $tWriting ?The Global? in Singapore Anglophone Fiction: Language, Vision and Resonance in Hwee Hwee Tan?s Fiction /$rRobbie B.H. Goh -- $tThe Anxiety of Influences: Dis-Locating Authority, Culture and Identity in the Novels of Colin Cheong /$rRobbie B. H. Goh -- $tThe Shit Hits The Fan: Timothy Mo?s New World Disorder /$rLaura Hall -- $tContested Belongings: The Politics and Poetics of Making a Home in Britain /$rDiana Yeh -- $tFrom China with Love: Chick Lit and The New Crossover Fiction /$rWenche Ommundsen -- $tNotes on Contributors. 330 $aThe world is anything but unfamiliar with diaspora: Jewish, African, Armenian, Roma-Gipsy, Filipino/a, Tamil, Irish or Italian, even Japanese. But few have carried so global a resonance as that of China. What, then, of literary-cultural expression, the huge body of fiction which has addressed itself to that plurality of lives and geographies and which has come to be known as ?After China?? This collection of essays offers bearings on those written in English, and in which both memory and story are central, spanning the USA to Australia, Canada to the UK, Hong Kong to Singapore, with yet others of more transnational nature. This collection opens with a reprise of woman-authored Chinese American fiction using Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan as departure points. In turn follow readings of the oeuvres of Tan and Frank Chin. A comparative essay takes up novels by Canadian, American and Australian authors from the perspective of migrancy as fracture. Chinese Canada comes into view in accounts of SKY Lee, Wayson Choy, Evelyn Lau and Larissa Lai. Australia under Chinese literary auspices is given a comparative mapping through the fiction of Brian Castro and Ouyang Yu. The English language ?China fiction? of Singapore and Hong Kong is located in essays centred, respectively, on Martin Booth and Po Wah Lam, and Hwee Hwee Tan and Colin Cheong. The collection rounds out with portraits of Timothy Mo as British transnational author, a selection of contextual Chinese British stories and art, and the phenomenon of ?Chinese Chick Lit? novels. China Fictions/English Language will be of interest to readers drawn both to ?After China? as diasporic literary heritage and comparative literature in general. 410 0$aText (Rodopi (Firm)) ;$v54. 606 $aAmerican literature$xChinese American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish literature$xChristian authors$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAmerican literature$xChinese American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xChristian authors$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a810.98951 701 $aLee$b A. Robert$f1941-$0602026 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811906503321 996 $aChina fictions, English language$94004203 997 $aUNINA