Sheng-Mei Ma

Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture

Asia in Flight

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-mei Ma's engaging text discusses issues of self and its relationship with Asian Diaspora culture in the global twenty-first century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780415594264
• ISBN-10: 041559426X
• Artikelnr.: 37043852

Autorenporträt

Sheng-mei Ma is Professor of English at Michigan State University in Michigan, USA, specializing in Asian Diaspora culture and East-West comparative studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction I. Asian Diaspora Visual Culture 1. Shadow's Shadow in Visual
Culture: Anime's Doll, Alien's Home 2. Inter-Asia Unbilical Love in Visual
Culture 3. Chinese Cinema's Global Dream, Multilinguality and Dialect's
Wake 4. Found(l)ing Taiwanese: From Chinese Fatherland to Japanese Okasan
5. Genesis by the Sword and Special Effects in Korean TV Costume Drama II.
Asian Diaspora Literature 6. Chinese Graffiti: Poetic Out from Muk Lau,
Tongyan Gaai, and House of English 7. Italic and Indiscernible Asianness in
Asian Diaspora Literature 8. Tears of Asian Diaspora: Empathetic Nostalgia
from an Eyehole 9. Eileen Chang and Zhang Ailing: A Bilingual Orphan 10.
Chink Chic, a.k.a., Shitnoiserie