1st Edition
Multidisciplinary Representations of Home and Homeland in Diaspora
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Beyond Borders: Diasporic Explorations of Homes and Ancestral Homelands
Jean Amato
Part I: Homelands, Nations, and Migrations: hardening and softening of borders and boundaries
2. Altneuland: Nationalism and Colonial Myth in Theodor Herzl, Franz Kafka, and Felix Salten
Iris Bruce
3. The Search for a Home in Migratory Societies: Evaluating Hikmet Temel Akarsu’s Adoration for Abroad in the Context of Architecture and Migration
Nevnihal Erdoğan
4. Hong Kong: Home as Gong Wu Between the Local, the National, the Colonial, and the Global
Ian Fong
Part II Fluid Homes, Fluid Identities: Gender Roles and Multi-layered Notions of Home
5. The Identity of the Caribbean “Others”: Maryse Condé and the Women’s Question in Diaspora
Trayee Sinha
6. “Shameless Old Men”: Home, Domesticity, Queerness, and the Latvian American Writer Anšlavs Eglītis
Karlis Verdins
7. Intertextuality and Fragmentation in Rabih Alameddine’s I, The Divine: The Crisis of Identity and Immigration
Arwa Albader
8. To Make Where You Are Your Home: Hatsuye Egami’s Migration and Writings in Japanese American Concentration Camps
Masumi Izumi
Part III Diasporic Imaginings of Homemaking and Community Building
9. Where Do We Belong? Glocal Blackness and The Family Unit in Diasporic African Literatures
Cristovão Nwachukwu
10. “London Is the Place for Me”: Language, Community Building, and Home-Making in Sam Selvon’s Moses Trilogy
Carolina Palacios Guerra
11. Longing for Dissonance: Writing Community in Loida Maritza Pérez’s Geographies of Home
Karen O'Regan
Part IV Transnational Return: Trajectories of Ancestral Homeland Narratives
12. Coming to Terms with the Hyphen: The Homecoming of a "Cultural Go-Between" in Andrew X. Pham's Catfish and Mandala
Jeanne Devautour Choi
13. Homing Laptop: Return to Reset via Chinese TV Series
Sheng-mei Ma
14. A Tale of Rupture and Hope: Friendship, Race, and Ignorance in Albert Wendt’s Sons for the Return Home
Quynh H. Vo
Conclusion
15. Mapping the Multidisciplinary Study of Home and Homeland
Kyunghee Pyun
Selected Bibliography
Index
Biography
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).
