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Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture Asia in Flight

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ISBN-10: 0203840771

ISBN-13: 9780203840771

Edition: 2011

Authors: Sheng-mei Ma

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This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-mei Ma#xE2;#xAC;"s engaging text discusses issues of self and its relationship with Asian Diaspora culture in the global twenty-first century. Using examples from Asia, Asian America, and Asian Diaspora from the West, the book weaves a narrative that challenges the twenty-first century triumphal discourse of Asia and argues that given the long shadow cast across modern film and literature, this upward mobility is inescapably escapist, a flight from itself; Asia#xE2;#xAC;"s stunning self-transformation is haunted by self-alienation. The chapters…    
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Book details

List price: $37.49
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 11/22/2010
Pages: 192
Language: English

Sheng-mei Ma is Professor of English at Michigan State University in Michigan, USA, specializing in Asian Diaspora/Asian American studies and East-West comparative studies. His six single-authored books in English are: Alienglish: Eastern Diasporas in Anglo-American Tongues (Cambria Press, 2014); Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity (Purdue University Press, 2012); Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture: Asia in Flight (Routledge, 2011); East-West Montage: Reflections on Asian Bodies in Diaspora (University of Hawaii Press, 2007); The Deathly Embrace: Orientalism and Asian American Identity (University of Minnesota Press, 2000); and Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian…