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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