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China fictions/English language : literary essays in diaspora, memory, story /
The world is anything but unfamiliar with diaspora: Jewish, African, Armenian, Roma-Gipsy, Filipino/a, Tamil, Irish or Italian, even Japanese. But few have carried so global a resonance as that of China. What, then, of literary-cultural expression, the huge body of fiction which has addressed itself...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2008.
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| Colección: | Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ;
54. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- China Fictions/English Language; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: China Fictions, After China Fictions; 1 "The beginning is hers": The Political and Literary Legacies of Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan; 2 Asymmetries: Loss and Forgiveness in the Novels of Amy Tan; 3 Bad Boy, Godfather, Storyteller: The China Fictions of Frank Chin; 4 Bearing The Diasporic Burden: Representations of Suicide in Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Caf©♭, Fae Myenne Ng's Bone, and Hsu-Ming Teo's Love and Vertigo; 5 Chinatown as Diaspora Space in Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe and Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony.
- 6 Canadian Border Crossings: Evelyn Lau and Larissa Lai7 The Earth's Revenge: Nature, Transfeminism and Diaspora in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl; 8 Diaspora Beyond Millennium: Brian Castro, Ouyang Yu, and Chinese Australia; 9 Childhood and The Cultural Memory of Hong Kong: Martin Booth's Gweilo and Po Wah Lam's The Locust Hunter; 10 Writing "The Global" in Singapore Anglophone Fiction: Language, Vision and Resonance in Hwee Hwee Tan's Fiction; 11 The Anxiety of Influences: Dis-Locating Authority, Culture and Identity in the Novels of Colin Cheong.
- 12 The Shit Hits The Fan: Timothy Mo's New World Disorder13 Contested Belongings: The Politics and Poetics of Making a Home in Britain; 14 From China with Love: Chick Lit and The New Crossover Fiction; Notes on Contributors.