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.
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.