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Ma, Sheng-mei.

Diaspora literature and visual culture : Asia in flight / Sheng-mei Ma. - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2011. - 183 p. ; 24 cm. - Routledge contemporary Asia series ; 27 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-180) and index.

Asian diaspora visual culture: Shadow's shadow in visual culture: anime's doll, alien's home; IInter-Asia umbilical love in visual culture; Chinese cinema's global dream, multilinguality and dialect's wake; Found(l)ing Taiwanese : from Chinese fatherland to Japanese okasan; Genesis by the sword and special effects in Korean TV costume drama -- Asian diaspora literature: Chinese graffiti: poetic out from Muk Lau, Tongyan Gaai, and house of English; Italic and indiscernible Asianness in Asian diaspora literature; Tears of Asian diaspora in "The Namesake": empathetic nostalgia from an eyehole; Eileen Chang and Zhang Ailing: a bilingual orphan; Chink chic, a.k.a., shitnoiserie.

9780415594264 (alk. paper) 041559426X (alk. paper)


American literature--Asian American authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Asian diaspora.
Motion pictures--History.--Asia
Asians--Ethnic identity.
Group identity in literature.
Other (Philosophy) in literature.

PS153.A84 / M25 2011

820.9895 / M111

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