Multidisciplinary Representations of Home and Homeland in Diaspora (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Amato, Jean; Pyun, Kyunghee

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection examines our fascination with homes, blending comparative literature, critical art history, and diaspora studies. Emphasizing the fluidity of home/homeland concepts, it explores multi-local affiliations, gender roles, languages, and power in contested national narratives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040255674
• Artikelnr.: 72523975

Autorenporträt

Jean Amato is Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, working in Chinese and English, her research centers on ancestral home/homeland in twentieth-century Chinese, Diasporic, and Chinese American Literature and Film. Co-editor of Home and Homeland in Asian Diaspora: Transnational Reflections in Art, Literature, and Film (2024), she is co-editing two interdisciplinary anthologies on homeland and diaspora studies and publishes extensively on this topic. Kyunghee Pyun is Professor of art history at the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, focusing on visual culture, the history of art collecting, and the intersectionality of technology and art. She co-edited Fashion, Identity, Power in Modern Asia (2018); Interpreting Modernism in Korean Art (2021); American Art from Asia (2022); Expanding the Parameters of Feminist Artivism (2022); Dress History of Korea (2023); and Home and Homeland in Asian Diaspora: Transnational Reflections in Art, Literature, and Film (2024).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Beyond Borders: Diasporic Explorations of Homes and Ancestral Homelands
2.
3. The Search for a Home in Migratory Societies: Evaluating Hikmet Temel
Akarsu's Adoration for Abroad in the Context of Architecture and Migration.
4.
5. The Identity of the Caribbean "Others": Maryse Condé and the Women's
Question in Diaspora.
6. "Shameless Old Men": Home, Domesticity, Queerness, and the Latvian
American Writer Anlavs Egl¿tis.
7. Intertextuality and Fragmentation in Rabih Alameddine's I, The Divine:
The Crisis of Transnational Identity and Immigration.
8. To Make Where You Are Your Home: Hatsuye Egami's Migration and Writings
in Japanese American Concentration Camps.
9. Where Do We Belong? Glocal Blackness and The Family Unit in Diasporic
African Literatures.
10. "London Is the Place for Me": Language, Community Building, and
Homemaking in Sam Selvon's Moses Trilogy.
11. Longing for Dissonance: Writing Community in Loida Maritza Pérez's
Geographies of Home.
12. Coming to Terms with the Hyphen: The Homecoming of a "Cultural
Go-Between" in Andrew X. Pham's Catfish and Mandala.
13. Homing Laptop: Return to Reset via Chinese TV Series
14. A Tale of Home and Rupture: Friendship, Race, and Ignorance in Albert
Wendt's Sons for the Return Home.
Conclusion
15. Mapping the Multidisciplinary Study of Home and Ancestral Homeland.
Selected Bibliography
Index