Identity Home And Writing Elsewhere In Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry

Author : Jennifer Wong
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350250345

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Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry by Jennifer Wong Pdf

An exploration of the burgeoning field of Anglophone Asian diaspora poetry, this book draws on the thematic concerns of Hong Kong, Asian-American and British Asian poets from the wider Chinese or East Asian diasporic culture to offer a transnational understanding of the complex notions of home, displacement and race in a globalised world. Located within current discourse surrounding Asian poetry, postcolonial and migrant writing, and bridging the fields of literary and cultural criticism with author interviews, this book provides close readings on established and emerging Chinese diasporic poets' work by incorporating the writers' own reflections on their craft through interviews with some of those featured. In doing so, Jennifer Wong explores the usefulness and limitations of existing labels and categories in reading the works of selected poets from specific racial, socio-cultural, linguistic environments and gender backgrounds, including Bei Dao, Li-Young Lee, Marilyn Chin, Hannah Lowe and Sarah Howe, Nina Mingya Powles and Mary Jean Chan. Incorporating scholarship from both the East and the West, Wong demonstrates how these poets' experimentation with poetic language and forms serve to challenge the changing notions of homeland, family, history and identity, offering new evaluations of contemporary diasporic voices.

Author : Andrew J. Moody
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780192667540

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The Oxford Handbook of Southeast Asian Englishes by Andrew J. Moody Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Southeast Asian Englishes is the first reference work of its kind to describe both the history and the contemporary forms, functions, and status of English in Southeast Asia (SEA). Since the arrival of English traders to Southeast Asia in the seventeenth century, the English language has had a profound impact on the linguistic ecologies and the development of societies throughout the region. Today, countries such as Singapore and the Philippines have adopted English as a national language, while in others, such as Indonesia and Cambodia, it is used as a foreign language of education. The chapters in this volume provide a comprehensive overview of current research on a wide range of topics, addressing the impact of English as a language of globalization and exploring new approaches to the spread of English in SEA. The volume is divided into six parts that investigate, respectively: historical and contemporary English contact in SEA; the structures of the Englishes spokes in different SEA nations; the English-language literatures of the region; approaches to English in education throughout the region; and resources for researching SEA Englishes. The handbook will be an invaluable reference work for students and researchers in areas as diverse as contact linguistics, English as a Foreign Language, world Englishes, and sociolinguistics.

Author : Timothy Yu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780192637819

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Diasporic Poetics by Timothy Yu Pdf

This book advances a new concept of the "Asian diaspora" that creates links between Asian American, Asian Canadian, and Asian Australian identities. Drawing from comparable studies of the black diaspora, it traces the histories of colonialism, immigration, and exclusion shared by these three populations. The work of Asian poets in each of these three countries offers a rich terrain for understanding how Asian identities emerge at the intersection of national and transnational flows, with the poets' thematic and formal choices reflecting the varied pressures of social and cultural histories, as well as the influence of Asian writers in other national locations. Diasporic Poetics argues that racialized and nationally bounded "Asian" identities often emerge from transnational political solidarities, from "Third World" struggles against colonialism to the global influence of the American civil rights movement. Indeed, this volume shows that Asian writers disclaim national belonging as often as they claim it, placing Asian diasporic writers at a critical distance from the national spaces within which they write. As the first full-length study to compare Asian American, Asian Canadian, and Asian Australian writers, the book offers the historical and cultural contexts necessary to understand the distinctive development of Asian writing in each country, while also offering close analysis of the work of writers such as Janice Mirikitani, Fred Wah, Ouyang Yu, Myung Mi Kim, and Cathy Park Hong.

Author : Benzi Zhang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781135908829

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Asian Diaspora Poetry in North America by Benzi Zhang Pdf

Presenting a new way of reading that helps us discern some previously unnoticed or unnoticeable features of Asian diaspora poetry, this volume highlights how poetry plays a significant role in mediating and defining cross-cultural and transnational positions. Asian diaspora poetry in North America is a rich body of poetic works that not only provide valuable material for us to understand the lives and experiences of Asian diasporas, but also present us with an opportunity to examine some of the most important issues in current literary and cultural studies. As a mode of writing across cultural and national borders, these poetic works challenge us to reconsider the assumptions and meanings of identity, nation, home, and place in a broad cross-cultural context. In recent postcolonial studies, diaspora has been conceived not only as a process of migration in which people crossed and traversed the borders of different countries, but also as a double relationship between different cultural origins. With all its complexity and ambiguity associated with the experience of multi-cultural mediation, diaspora, as both a process and a relationship, suggests an act of constant repositioning in confluent streams that accommodate to multiple cultural traditions. By examining how Asian diaspora poets maintain and represent their cultural differences in North America, Zhang is able to seek new perspectives for understanding and analyzing the intrinsic values of Asian cultures that survive and develop persistently in North American societies.

Author : Kam Louie,Tseen Khoo
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 077353007X

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Culture, Identity, Commodity by Kam Louie,Tseen Khoo Pdf

From David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly to Evelyn Lau's Diary of a Runaway to Fred Wah's poetry, diasporic Chinese literature in English is reaching wider audiences. The interdisciplinary essays in Culture, Identity, Commodity provide close textual readings and general theoretical frameworks from American, Australian, and Canadian perspectives for a range of textual productions - novels, autobiographies, plays, and Chinese cooking shows - that address this dynamic field. Established and emerging scholars offer timely discussions of "diasporic Chinese studies," drawing on transnational, postcolonial, globalisation, and racialisation theories. The collection examines what is at stake in the consideration of diasporic literatures and the connections and fissures emerging in these new critical terrains. Book jacket.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781135908836

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Asian Diaspora Poetry in North America by Anonim Pdf

Author : Julia Kuehn,Kam Louie,David M. Pomfret
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780774825948

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Diasporic Chineseness after the Rise of China by Julia Kuehn,Kam Louie,David M. Pomfret Pdf

As China rose to its position of global superpower, Chinese groups in the West watched with anticipation and trepidation. In this volume, international scholars examine how artists, writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals from the Chinese diaspora represented this new China to global audiences. The chapters, often personal in nature, focus on the nexus between the political and economic rise of China and the cultural products this period produced, where new ideas of nation, identity, and diaspora were forged.

Author : L. Chen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403982988

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Writing Chinese by L. Chen Pdf

This is a comparative study of the politics of Chinese cultural identity facing China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the US-Chinese, and the Chinese diaspora in the West. The author challenges current discussions of hybridity and nationalism by contrasting the experiences of Taiwan, Hong Kong and US-Chinese with those of China and the Chinese diaspora.

Author : Melody Yunzi Li
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781978829350

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Transpacific Cartographies by Melody Yunzi Li Pdf

Transpacific Cartographies examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-US tensions. Focusing on cultural productions of the Chinese diaspora from the 1990s to the present -- including novels by the Sinophone writers Yan Geling (The Criminal Lu Yanshi), Shi Yu (New York Lover), Chen Qian (Listen to the Caged Bird Sing), and Rong Rong (Notes of a Couple), as well as by the Anglophone writer Ha Jin (A Free Life; A Map of Betrayal), selected TV shows (Beijinger in New York; The Way We Were), and online literature -- Melody Yunzi Li argues that the characters in these stories create multilayered maps that transcend the territorial boundaries that make finding a home in a foreign land a seemingly impossible task. In doing so, these “maps” outline a transpacific landscape that reflects the psycho-geography of homemaking for diasporic communities. Intersecting with and bridging Sinophone studies, Chinese American studies, and diaspora studies and drawing on theories of literary cartography, Transpacific Cartographies demonstrates how these “maps” offer their readers different paths for finding a sense of home no matter where they are.

Author : Timothy Yu (Professor of literature)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0191904422

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Diasporic Poetics by Timothy Yu (Professor of literature) Pdf

This text advances a new concept of the 'Asian diaspora' that creates links between Asian American, Asian Canadian, and Asian Australian identities. Drawing from comparable studies of the black diaspora, it traces the histories of colonialism, immigration, and exclusion shared by these three populations.

Author : Sharon K. Hom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135599904

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Chinese Women Traversing Diaspora by Sharon K. Hom Pdf

The contributors to this volume were born in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong; they have been immigrants, foreign students, settlers, permanent residents, citizens, and-above all-"travelers." They are both geographic inhabitants of various overseas diaspora Chinese communities as well as figurative inhabitants of imagined heterogeneous and hybrid communities. Their migratory histories are here presented as an interdisciplinary collection of texts in distinctive voices: law professor, journalist, historian, poet, choreographer, film scholar, tai-chi expert, translator, writer, literary scholar.

Author : Beibei Chen
Publisher : Cultural Identity Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Australian literature
ISBN : 1789974380

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Memory and Identity in Contemporary Chinese-Australian Novels by Beibei Chen Pdf

Inspired by the "transnational turn" in global literature, this book explores the significance of transnational memory and identity in Chinese-Australian literature. The book offers unique observations on how different types of memory exert influence on the formation of identity in Chinese diasporic writings.

Author : K. Kuah-Pearce,A. Davidson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230591622

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At Home in the Chinese Diaspora by K. Kuah-Pearce,A. Davidson Pdf

This book explores how memories are used to re-establish a sense of belonging, analyzing the relationships between migrants' adjustment, assimilation and re-membering home. It considers memories as social expressions as well as the tensions and conflicts in representing and renegotiating memories in literature and cinema.

Author : Ien Ang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134512928

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On Not Speaking Chinese by Ien Ang Pdf

In this major new book, leading cultural thinker Ien Ang engages with urgent questions of identity in an age of globalisation and diaspora. The starting point for Ang's discussion is the experience of visiting Taiwan. Ang, a person of Chinese descent, born in Indonesia and raised in the Netherlands, found herself "faced with an almost insurmountable difficulty" - surrounded by people who expected her to speak to them in Chinese. She writes: "It was the beginning of an almost decade-long engagement with the predicaments of `Chineseness' in diaspora. In Taiwan I was different because I couldn't speak Chinese; in the West I was different because I looked Chinese". From this autobiographical beginning, Ang goes on to reflect upon tensions between `Asia' and `the West' at a national and global level, and to consider the disparate meanings of `Chineseness' in the contemporary world. She offers a critique of the increasingly aggressive construction of a global Chineseness, and challenges Western tendencies to equate `Chinese' with `Asian' identity. Ang then turns to `the West', exploring the paradox of Australia's identity as a `Western' country in the Asian region, and tracing Australia's uneasy relationship with its Asian neighbours, from the White Australia policy to contemporary multicultural society. Finally, Ang draws together her discussion of `Asia' and `the West' to consider the social and intellectual space of the `in-between', arguing for a theorising not of `difference' but of `togetherness' in contemporary societies.

Author : Jennifer Wong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9881862361

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Goldfish by Jennifer Wong Pdf

From childhood memories, fairytales, taboos, deep-rooted faiths to translated truths, Jennifer Wong's dream-like and surreal second collection reveals the changing landscapes of Hong Kong and modern China. "This collection establishes Jennifer Wong as Hong Kong's finest English language poet of the younger generation without a shadow of doubt." -- Mike Ingham ..". handled with great sharpness and delicacy." -- George Szirtes