Ma, Sheng-mei.

Diaspora literature and visual culture : Asia in flight / Sheng-mei Ma. - London ; New York : Routledge, c2011. - 183 p. ; 24 cm. - Routledge contemporary Asia series ; 27. . - Routledge contemporary Asia series ; 27. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-180) and index.

Asian diaspora visual culture: Shadow's shadow in visual culture: anime's doll, alien's home; IInter-Asia umbilical love in visual culture; Chinese cinema's global dream, multilinguality and dialect's wake; Found(l)ing Taiwanese : from Chinese fatherland to Japanese okasan; Genesis by the sword and special effects in Korean TV costume drama -- Asian diaspora literature: Chinese graffiti: poetic out from Muk Lau, Tongyan Gaai, and house of English; Italic and indiscernible Asianness in Asian diaspora literature; Tears of Asian diaspora in "The Namesake": empathetic nostalgia from an eyehole; Eileen Chang and Zhang Ailing: a bilingual orphan; Chink chic, a.k.a., shitnoiserie.

9780415594264 (hbk.) 9780203840771 (ebk.)


American literature--Asian American authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Asian diaspora.
Motion pictures--History.--Asia
Asians--Ethnic identity.
Group identity in literature.
Other (Philosophy) in literature.

810.9895 / MAS 2011