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Visuality and Identity - Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific (Paperback)
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Visuality and Identity - Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific (Paperback)
Series: Asia Pacific Modern, 2
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"The reader may be startled by the juxtaposition of visual and
phonic in the title of this stimulating volume. Shih does it with a
purpose. The Sinophone refers more to a people than a voice, as the
basis for affinity across global spaces, that confers a commonality
upon them even as they follow diverse historical trajectories. The
visual confirms this commonality, even as it opens up those same
people to forces of cultural globalization, forces that themselves
both unite and divide. The deconstruction of categories such as
China or Chineseness always seems to invite their reconstruction on
new bases. Shih offers a novel and illuminating account of this
double motion in the contemporary production of a 'global Chinese'
(Sinophone) culture through visual media. An important addition to
cultural and diasporic studies in the China field."--Arif Dirlik,
author of "Global Modernity: Modernity in the Age of Global
Capitalism"
"Against the backdrop of what she calls the Sinophone Pacific--that
representational time-space traversed by polyphonic articulations
of de-standardized Chineseness as well as by myriad visual
mediations-- Shu-mei Shih offers an admirably global vision for
minoritized culture production. Her analysis of gender, class,
language, and cultural politics is as trenchant as her challenge to
China-centrism is timely. A remarkable critical
accomplishment."--Rey Chow, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the
Humanities, Brown University
"Tracing the spectral production of 'Chinese' identity as it is
disseminated globally, Shih boldly moves away from using place
(ethnicity) and the body (race) to anchor Chinese identity, to
argue that the visual (film) and the verbal (languageand
linguistics) are the most salient ones in the modern and
contemporary historical formation. She succeeds
brilliantly."--David Palumbo-Liu, author of "Asian/American:
Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier"
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