1st Edition

Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture Asia in Flight

By Sheng-mei Ma Copyright 2011
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

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. Using examples from Asia, Asian America, and Asian Diaspora from the West, the book weaves a narrative that... Read more

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

Biography

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