| Description |
1 online resource (228 pages) |
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Comparative Cultural Studies |
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Comparative cultural studies.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Digging to China (or America) -- Chapter 1. Asian Cell and Horror -- Chapter 2. Asian Diaspora Does Vegas -- Chapter 3. Diasporic Authors of Children's and Young Adult Books -- Chapter 4. A Child's Passing into Asian Diaspora -- Chapter 5. yEast for Modern Cannibals -- Chapter 6. Bugman in Modernity -- Chapter 7. Kim Ki-duk's Nonperson Films -- Chapter 8. Nakazawa's A-bomb, Tezuka's Adolf, and Kobayashi's Apologia -- Chapter 9. Orientation Goes to War in the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 10. Hyperreal Beijing and the 2008 Olympics -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Summary |
In this book, Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity, Sheng-mei Ma analyzes Asian, Asian diaspora, and Orientalist discourse and probes into the conjoinedness of West and East and modernity's illusions. Drawing from Anglo-American, Asian American, and Asian literature, as well as J-horror and manga, Chinese cinema, the internet, and the Korean Wave, Ma's analyses render fluid the two hemispheres of the globe, the twin states of being and nonbeing, and things of value and nonentity. Suspended on the stylistic tightrope between research and poetry, critical analysis and intution, Asian Diaspora restores affect and heart to diaspora in between East and West, at-homeness and exilic attrition. Diaspora, by definition, stems as much from socioeconomic and collective displacement as it points to emotional reaction. This book thus challenges the fossilized conceptualizations in area studies, ontology, and modernism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism
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Civilization, Modern.
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Popular culture -- Asia
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East and West.
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Asian diaspora.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- Asian American.
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American literature -- Asian American authors
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Asian diaspora
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Civilization, Modern
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East and West
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Popular culture
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Asia
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781612492094 |
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1612492096 |
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