1st Edition

Locating Asian Australian Cultures

Edited By Tseen Khoo Copyright 2008
254 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Locating Asian Australian Cultures is a timely and challenging interdisciplinary compilation that sets a contemporary benchmark for Asian Australian studies and its future directions. In the dynamic field of diasporic Asian studies, Asian Australian Studies is an emerging and contentious area. While cognisant of issues and critical developments in North America, Europe, and Asia, Asian... Read more

Disciplines  1.1 Disciplining Asian Australian Studies: Projections and Introjections  1.2 Critical Response to 'Disciplining Asian Australian Studies': An Asian American Perspective  1.3 Asian Australian Studies and Asian German Studies  Text  1.1 ‘Flexible Citizenship’: Strategic Chinese Identities in ‘Asian Australian’ Literature  1.2 No Place like Home: The Ambivalent Rhetoric of Hospitality in Chinese Australian Literature  1.3 Asian Australian Literature and Postcolonialism  Image  1.1 Telling Stories: The Sacrificial Asian in Australian Cinema  1.2 Re-Configuring the Diasporic and Indigenous in the Art of Zhou Xiaoping  1.3 Thanatophilia: William Yang’s Sadness and the Other Community  1.4 Beyond the Provincialist Bind: Contemporaneity in Asian Australian Art  Sites  1.1 Australian Chinatowns  1.2 At Cabravale Park: Recognition, Defacement, and the Vietnamese-Australian War Memorial  1.3 Identity and Bengali Australians  Politics  1.1 Citizenship as a Frame of Contestation in Asian Australian Parliamentary Maiden Speeches  1.2 ‘The Tyranny of Appearance’: Chinese Australian identities and the politics of ‘difference’  1.3 Grafton to Guangzhou: The Revolutionary Journey of Tse Tsan Tai

Biography

Tseen Khoo