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Narratives of Diaspora

2013-12-17 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2013-12-17
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Narratives of Diaspora by : W. Lim

Download or read book Narratives of Diaspora written by W. Lim. This book was released on 2013-12-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese American authors often find it necessary to represent Asian history in their literary works. Tracing the development of the literary production of Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Lisa See, and Russell Leong, among others, this book captures the effects of international politics and globalization on Chinese American diasporic consciousness.

Migration, Diaspora, Exile

2020-05-27 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2020-05-27
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Migration, Diaspora, Exile by : Daniel Stein

Download or read book Migration, Diaspora, Exile written by Daniel Stein. This book was released on 2020-05-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migration is the most volatile sociopolitical issue of our time, as the current escalation of discourse and action in the United States and Europe concerning walls, border security, refugee camps, and deportations indicates. The essays by the international and interdisciplinary group of scholars assembled in this volume offer critical filters suggesting that this escalation and its historical precedents do not preclude redemptive counterstrategies. Encoded in narratives of affiliation and escape, these counterstrategies are variously launched as literary, cinematic, and civic interventions in past and present constructions of diasporic, migratory, or exilic identities. The essays trace these narratives through the figure of the “exile” as it moves across times, borders, and genres, transmogrifying into the fugitive, the escapee, the refugee, the nomad, the Other. Arguing that narratives and figures of migration to and in Europe and the Americas share tropes that link migration to kinship, community, refuge, and hegemony, the volume identifies a transhistorical, transcultural, and transnational common ground for experiences of mediated diaspora, migration, and exile at a time when public discourse and policy-making emphasize borders, divisions, and violent confrontations.

South Asian Diaspora Narratives

2017-05-03 Social Science
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Release : 2017-05-03
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis South Asian Diaspora Narratives by : Amit Sarwal

Download or read book South Asian Diaspora Narratives written by Amit Sarwal. This book was released on 2017-05-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the metaphysical and poetical notions and the processes of ‘rooting into a culture’ and ‘routing out of a culture’ in the context of South Asian diaspora in Australia. These diasporic narratives are often characterised by bifurcated and dislocated identities that exist in a liminal space, in-between two identities, two cultures, and two histories. Yet, ‘home’ remains, through acts of imagination, remembering and re-creation, an important reference point. The author argues that a clearer notion of politics of location is required to distinguish between the different kinds of ‘dislocation’ the immigrants suffer, both psychologically and sociologically. The diaspora is Australia is an under-studied topic, and this book fills a lacuna in South Asian diaspora studies by analysing and calling upon a wide range of works in this field from historical, anthropological, sociological, cultural, and literary studies.

The Heartsick Diaspora

2020-01-23 Fiction
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Release : 2020-01-23
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Heartsick Diaspora by : Elaine Chiew

Download or read book The Heartsick Diaspora written by Elaine Chiew. This book was released on 2020-01-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in different cities around the world, Elaine Chiew's award-winning stories travel into the heart of the Singaporean and Malaysian Chinese diasporas to explore the lives of those torn between cultures and juggling divided selves. In the title story, four writers find their cultural bonds of friendship tested when a handsome young Asian writer joins their group. In other stories, a brother searches for his sister forced to serve as a comfort woman during World War Two; three Singaporean sisters run a French gourmet restaurant in New York; a woman raps about being a Tiger Mother in Belgravia; and a filmmaker struggles to document the lives of samsui women—Singapore's thrifty, hardworking construction workers. > Acutely observed, wry and playful, her stories are as worldly and emotionally resonant as the characters themselves. This fabulous debut collection heralds an exciting new literary voice.

Seeking the Self – Encountering the Other

2020-11-09 Social Science
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Release : 2020-11-09
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Seeking the Self – Encountering the Other by : Tuomas Huttunen

Download or read book Seeking the Self – Encountering the Other written by Tuomas Huttunen. This book was released on 2020-11-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking the Self – Encountering the Other offers new insights into diasporic experiences, encounters and representations. This collection of texts examines diaspora narratives and the ways in which different encounters with the other are represented, as well as how these encounters might be read and interpreted in ethical terms. The anthology explores questions of ethics in narratives of displacement or belonging, nationalist narratives of exclusion and borderline narratives, constructed on the foundation provided by encounters with the cultural, sexual, gendered and ethnic other. The contributors’ aim is to explore questions of responsibility and ethics in the study of diaspora, migration, and alterity from a wide range of perspectives. Following a Levinasian one, if the other is always ultimately transcendental and ungraspable through language, we are required to consider ethics every time we write, read or interpret an encounter with the other.

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