Diaspora literature and visual culture : Asia in flight / / Sheng-mei Ma
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/895 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This 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 flig |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Diaspora literature and visual culture |
| ISBN: | 1-136-89394-6 |
| 1-283-03824-2 | |
| 9786613038241 | |
| 0-203-84077-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910459240703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Routledge Contemporary Asia Series