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This volume analyzes innovative forms of media and music (art
installations, television commercials, photography, films, songs,
telenovelas) to examine the performance of migration in
contemporary culture. Though migration studies and media studies
are ostensibly different fields, this transnational collection of
essays addresses how their interconnection has shaped our
understanding of the paradigms through which we think about
migration, ethnicity, nation, and the transnational. Cultural
representations intervene in collective beliefs. Art and media
clearly influence the ways the experience of migration is
articulated and recalled, intervening in individual perceptions as
well as public policy. To understand the connection between
migration and diverse media, the authors examine how migration is
represented in film, television, music, and art, but also how media
shape the ways in which host country and homeland are imagined.
Among the topics considered are new mediated forms for representing
migration, widening the perspective on the ways these
representations may be analyzed; readings of enactments of memory
in trans- and inter-disciplinary ways; and discussions of
globalization and transnationalism, inviting us to rethink
traditional borders in respect to migration, nation states, as well
as disciplines.
This volume analyzes innovative forms of media and music (art
installations, television commercials, photography, films, songs,
telenovelas) to examine the performance of migration in
contemporary culture. Though migration studies and media studies
are ostensibly different fields, this transnational collection of
essays addresses how their interconnection has shaped our
understanding of the paradigms through which we think about
migration, ethnicity, nation, and the transnational. Cultural
representations intervene in collective beliefs. Art and media
clearly influence the ways the experience of migration is
articulated and recalled, intervening in individual perceptions as
well as public policy. To understand the connection between
migration and diverse media, the authors examine how migration is
represented in film, television, music, and art, but also how media
shape the ways in which host country and homeland are imagined.
Among the topics considered are new mediated forms for representing
migration, widening the perspective on the ways these
representations may be analyzed; readings of enactments of memory
in trans- and inter-disciplinary ways; and discussions of
globalization and transnationalism, inviting us to rethink
traditional borders in respect to migration, nation states, as well
as disciplines.
Relative Histories focuses on the Asian American memoir that
specifically recounts the story of at least three generations of
the same family. This form of auto/biography concentrates as much
on other members of one's family as on oneself, generally collapses
the boundaries conventionally established between biography and
autobiography, and in many cases--as Rocio G. Davis proposes for
the auto/biographies of ethnic writers--crosses the frontier into
history, promoting collective memory. Davis centers on how Asian
American family memoirs expand the limits and function of life
writing by reclaiming history and promoting community cohesion. She
argues that identity is shaped by not only the stories we have been
told, but also the stories we tell, making these narratives
important examples of the ways we remember our family's past and
tell our community's story. In the context of auto/biographical
writing or filmmaking that explores specific ethnic experiences of
diaspora, assimilation, and integration, this work considers two
important aspects: These texts re-imagine the past by creating a
work that exists both in history and as a historical document,
making the creative process a form of re-enactment of the past
itself. Each chapter centers on a thematic concern germane to the
Asian American experience: the narrative of twentieth-century Asian
wars and revolutions, which has become the subtext of a significant
number of Asian American family memoirs (Pang-Mei Natasha Chang's
Bound Feet and Western Dress, May-lee and Winberg Chai's The Girl
from Purple Mountain, K. Connie Kang's Home Was The Land of Morning
Calm, Doung Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow); family
experiences of travel and displacement within Asia in the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which unveil a history of
multiple diasporas that are often elided after families immigrate
to the United States (Helie Lee's Still Life With Rice, Jael
Silliman's Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames, Mira Kamdar's Motiba's
Tattoos); and the development of Chinatowns as family spaces
(Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men, Lisa See's On Gold Mountain,
Bruce Edward Hall's Tea that Burns). The final chapter analyzes the
discursive possibilities of the filmed family memoir ("family
portrait documentary"), examining Lise Yasui's A Family Gathering,
Ruth Ozeki Lounsbury's Halving the Bones, and Ann Marie Fleming's
The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam. Davis concludes the work with a
metaliterary engagement with the history of her own Asian diasporic
family as she demonstrates the profound interconnection between
forms of life writing.
An analytically innovative work, ""Begin Here"" widens the current
critical focus of Asian North American literary studies by
proposing an integrated thematic and narratological approach to the
practice of autobiography. It demonstrates how Asian North American
memoirs of childhood challenge the construction and performative
potential of national experiences. This understanding influences
theoretical approaches to ethnic life writing, expanding the
boundaries of traditional autobiography by negotiating narrative
techniques and genre and raising complex questions about
self-representation and the construction of cultural memory. By
examining the artistic project of some fifty Asian North American
writers who deploy their childhood narratives in the representation
of the individual processes of self-identification and negotiation
of cultural and national affiliation, this work provides a
comprehensive overview of Asian North American autobiographies of
childhood published over the last century. Importantly, it also
attends to new ways of writing autobiographies, employing comics,
blending verse, prose, diaries, and life writing for children, and
using relational approaches to self-identification, among others.
Sites of Ethnicity brings together contributions from scholars in
Canada, the U.K., Finland, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, and the
United States who share an interest in exploring the theoretical
possibilities of site analysis and the crucial role of place and
spatial tactics in multi-ethnic societies. The strategic means for
deciphering total social facts-comprising broad issues such as
travel, subject positioning, identity, ethnicity, culture,
memory-are as diverse and wide-ranging as the contributors to this
volume. Manifestations of ethnicity in literature and non-literary
texts, music, food, TV series, photographs, and even gravesites,
are revealed to be constructed, performed, eaten, remembered,
desired, and imagined as important sites for a definition of both
individual and collective identities that, when studied in-depth,
prove consistently elusive, fluid, and always already deferred. The
papers present a vision of a world that is increasingly a global
village, one in which memory and local place help measure various
forms of ethnic representation through a reflection of possible
sites of cultural engagement and agency.
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