Haunting In Chinese Australian Writing

Author : Xiao Xiong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9819930669

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Haunting in Chinese-Australian Writing by Xiao Xiong Pdf

This book examines haunting in terms of trauma, languaging, and the supernatural in works by Chinese Australian writers born in Australia, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore. It goes beyond the conventional focus on identity issues in the analysis of diasporic writing, considering how the memory of past trauma is triggered by abusive systems of power in the present. The author unpacks how trauma also brings past violence to haunt the present. This book considers how different Chinese diasporic communities present a dynamic and multiple state through partial erasure between different Chinese subcultures and other cultures. Showing the supernatural as a social and cultural product, this book elucidates how haunting as the supernatural refers to the coexistence of, and the competition between, different cultures and powers. It takes a wide-ranging view of different diasporic communities under the banner 'Chinese', a term that refers not only to Chinese nationals in terms of citizenship, but also to the Chinese diaspora in terms of ancestry, and Chinese culture more generally. In analysing haunting in texts, the author positions Chinese culture as in a constant state of flux. It is relevant to literary scholars and students with interests in Australian literature, Chinese and Southeast Asian migration writing, and those with an interest in the Gothic and postcolonial traditions.

Author : Xiao Xiong
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789819930647

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Haunting in Chinese-Australian Writing by Xiao Xiong Pdf

This book examines haunting in terms of trauma, languaging, and the supernatural in works by Chinese Australian writers born in Australia, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore. It goes beyond the conventional focus on identity issues in the analysis of diasporic writing, considering how the memory of past trauma is triggered by abusive systems of power in the present. The author unpacks how trauma also brings past violence to haunt the present. This book considers how different Chinese diasporic communities present a dynamic and multiple state through partial erasure between different Chinese subcultures and other cultures. Showing the supernatural as a social and cultural product, this book elucidates how haunting as the supernatural refers to the coexistence of, and the competition between, different cultures and powers. It takes a wide-ranging view of different diasporic communities under the banner ‘Chinese’, a term that refers not only to Chinese nationals in terms of citizenship, but also to the Chinese diaspora in terms of ancestry, and Chinese culture more generally. In analysing haunting in texts, the author positions Chinese culture as in a constant state of flux. It is relevant to literary scholars and students with interests in Australian literature, Chinese and Southeast Asian migration writing, and those with an interest in the Gothic and postcolonial traditions.

Author : Peter Read
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781742246901

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Haunted Earth by Peter Read Pdf

This extraordinary book tackles head-on the existence and meaning of spirit forces in Australia. Haunted Earth asks a few key questions: Is Australia haunted? If so, where, and with what? Are there spiritual or otherwise ‘special’ places in Australia? Each chapter follows a round-the-clock journey, from midnight to midnight, charting the activities of Australians of many different experiences and cultures: there are Aboriginal spirits on Flinders Island at daybreak, the summoning of a Chinese ancestor spirit at noon in Perth, an exorcism in New South Wales in early afternoon.

Author : Paige Clark
Publisher : Two Dollar Radio
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781953387219

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She Is Haunted by Paige Clark Pdf

* Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, Shortlist * 2022 Stella Prize, Longlist "A Best Book of the Year" —The Guardian "A Most Anticipated book of 2022" —Entertainment Weekly With an unforgettable voice and exuberant wit, She Is Haunted is a masterful debut exploring issues of identity, connection, and loss, told with remarkable grace and assurance by Chinese/American/Australian author, Paige Clark. In stories charged by the complexities of mother-daughter relationships, grief, exes, and the profundities of friendship, She Is Haunted features injured ballerinas, cloned dogs, and competitive call centers in settings as far ranging as future and present Australia, New York City’s Chinatown, and suburban California. A mother cuts her daughter’s hair because her own hair begins falling out; a woman attempts to physically transform into her dead husband so that she does not have to grieve; a woman undergoes brain surgery in order to live more comfortably in extreme temperatures. Braiding the real and the surreal, both playfully witty and deeply insightful, these stories show us characters striving to make sense of the grand themes of family, love, death, and our changing world. She Is Haunted flags Paige Clark as a wondrous and wise new literary talent.

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1512 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : WISC:89089942106

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1502 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015062428514

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office Pdf

Author : Trudy Toohill
Publisher : Boolarong Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781925236811

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Australia's Haunted History by Trudy Toohill Pdf

Australia’s Haunted History is a collection of spine-tingling, blood-curdling, frightening and often mysterious Australian paranormal tales from throughout our country’s turbulent past. Many of these historical accounts of spectral hauntings and strange happenings were documented in early Australian newspapers and have been accurately transcribed in the pages of this book. These ghostly sightings will challenge even the most ardent sceptic. Many of these chilling events remain largely unexplained to this day. Murder and mayhem, mystifying mysteries, haunted houses, ghostly goldfields, shocking tragedies, pestering poltergeists, strange and bizarre happenings – they are all included. Many of the historical ghost tales in this book have been forgotten through the passing of time. Australia’s Haunted History will bring these creepy tales back to life and spark the imagination of a new generation to ask that poignant question, are ghosts real? Old favourites have not been overlooked and several tales of well-known Australian ghosts are included. If you love a good ghost story, Australia’s Haunted History will keep you entertained for hours. But be careful, after reading this book you may need to sleep with the light on!

Author : Sneja Gunew
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135142131

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Haunted Nations by Sneja Gunew Pdf

Postcolonialism has attracted a large amount of interest in cultural theory, but the adjacent area of multiculturalism has not been scrutinised to quite the same extent. In this innovative new book, Sneja Gunew sets out to interrogate the ways in which the transnational discourse of multiculturalism may be related to the politics of race and indigeneity, grounding her discussion in a variety of national settings and a variety of literary, autobiographical and theoretical texts. Using examples from marginal sites - the "settler societies" of Australia and Canada - to cast light on the globally dominant discourses of the US and the UK, Gunew analyses the political ambiguities and the pitfalls involved in a discourse of multiculturalism haunted by the opposing spectres of anarchy and assimilation.

Author : Guanglin Wang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811366093

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Translation in Diasporic Literatures by Guanglin Wang Pdf

This book investigates issues of translation and survival in diasporic and transcultural literature, combining Chinese and Western theories of translation to discuss the centrifugal and centripetal forces that are inherent in diasporic Chinese writers. Cutting across philosophy, semiotics, translation studies and diasporic writing, it the book tackles the complexity of translation as a key tool to re-read the dynamics of Sino-Anglo literary encounters that reset East-West parameters. Focusing on a range of specialized areas of cultural translation sand China-related writings, this book is a key read for scholars of translation and cross-cultural writings, ethnic studies, postcolonial studies, American and Australian literature studies, and global Chinese literature studies.

Author : Lucille Lok-Sun Ngan,Chan Kwok-bun
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461421313

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The Chinese Face in Australia by Lucille Lok-Sun Ngan,Chan Kwok-bun Pdf

The book explains how multi-generational Australian-born Chinese (ABC) negotiate the balance of two cultures. It explores both the philosophical and theoretical levels, focusing on deconstructing and re-evaluating the concept of ‘Chineseness.’ At a social and experiential level, it concentrates on how successive generations of early migrants experience, negotiate and express their Chinese identity. The diasporic literature has taken up the idea of hybrid identity construction largely in relation to first- and second-generation migrants and to the sojourner’s sense of roots in a diasporic setting somewhat lost in the debate over Chinese diasporas and identities are the experiences of long-term migrant communities. Their experiences are usually discussed in terms of the melting-pot concepts of assimilation and integration that assume ethnic identification decreases and eventually disappears over successive generations. Based on ethnography, fieldwork and participant observation on multi-generational Australian-born Chinese whose families have resided in Australia from three to six generations, this study reveals a contrasting picture of ethnic identification.

Author : Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1622 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015020244284

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1636 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : SRLF:E0000738500

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F-O by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy Pdf

Author : Baden Offord,Caroline Fleay,Lisa Hartley,Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes,Dean Chan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000512816

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Activating Cultural and Social Change by Baden Offord,Caroline Fleay,Lisa Hartley,Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes,Dean Chan Pdf

In this thought-provoking book, a diverse range of educators, activists, academics, and community advocates provide theoretical and practical ways of activating our knowledge and understanding of how to build a human rights culture. Addressing approaches and applications to human rights within current socio-cultural, political, socio-legal, environmental, educational, and global contexts, these chapters explore tensions, contradictions, and complexities within human rights education. The book establishes cultural and educational practices as intrinsically linked to human rights consciousness and social justice, showing how signature pedagogies used by human rights practitioners can be intellectual, creative, or a combination of both. Across three sections, the book discusses ways of bringing about holistic, relevant, and compelling approaches for challenging and understanding structures of power, which have become a global system, while also suggesting a move from abstract human rights principles, declarations, and instruments to meaningful changes that do not dehumanise and distance us from intrinsic and extrinsic oppressions, denial of identity and community, and other forms of human rights abuse. Offering new critical cultural studies approaches on how a human rights consciousness arises and is practised, this book will be of great interest to scholars and students of cultural studies, education studies, critical sociology, human rights education, and human rights studies.

Author : Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1548 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UIUC:30112060019699

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Library of Congress Subject Headings: F-O by Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division Pdf

Author : Nick Knight,Michael Heazle,Daniel Halvorson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521157131

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Understanding Australia's Neighbours by Nick Knight,Michael Heazle,Daniel Halvorson Pdf

A comprehensive introduction to the study of Asia. Written thematically, it provides comparisons between Asian and Australian societies and encourages readers to think about Australia's neighbours across a wide range of social, economic and historical contexts.