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Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture - Asia in Flight (Paperback)
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Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture - Asia in Flight (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
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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
challenges the twenty-first century triumphal discourse of Asia and
argues that given the long shadow cast across modern film and
literature, this upward mobility is inescapably escapist, a flight
from itself; Asia's stunning self-transformation is haunted by
self-alienation. The chapters discuss a wealth of topics, including
Asianness, Orientalism, and Asian American identity, drawing on a
variety of pop culture sources from The Matrix Trilogy to Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon. This book forms an analysis of the new idea
of Asian Diaspora that cuts across area, ethnicity, and nation,
incorporating itself into the contemporary global culture whilst
retaining a distinct Asian flavor. Covering the mediums of
literature, film, and visual cultures, this book will be of immense
interest to scholars and students of Asian studies and literature,
ethnic studies, cultural studies, and film.
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