Culture, identity, commodity : diasporic Chinese literatures in English / edited by Tseen Khoo and Kam Louie.

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TextPublication details: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], 2005.Description: 1 online resource (320 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9789882200951
9882200958
9789622097605
962209760X
1282705962
9781282705968
9786612705960
6612705965

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Culture, identity, commodity.DDC classification:

810.98951 22

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PS153.C45 C85 2005eb

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Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- INTRODUCTION Culture, Identity, Commodity: Testing Diasporic Literary Boundaries -- 1 ""Peeking Ducks"" and ""Food Pomographers"": Commodifying Culinary Chinese Americanness -- 2 Market Forces and Powerful Desires: Reading Evelyn Lau's Cultural Labor -- 3 ""There're a Billion Bellies Out There"": Commodity Fetishism, The Uber-Oriental, and the Geopolitics of Desire in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly -- 4 ""How Taste Remembers Life"": Diasporic Memory and Community in Fred Wah's Poetry.

5 ""Where are you from?"": New Imaginings of Identity in Chinese-Australian Writing -- 6 The Problem of Diaspora: On Chinese Canadian Cultural Production in English -- 7 ""Forays into Acts of Transformation"": Queering Chinese-Canadian Diasporic Fictions -- 8 Decentring Orientalist and Ocker Masculinities in Birds of Passage -- 9 Exporting Feminism: Jade Snow Wong's Global Tour -- 10 Sleep No More: Ouyang Yu's Wake-up Call to Multicultural Australia -- 11 On Ascriptive and Acquisitional Americanness: The Accidental Asian and the Illogic of Assimilation.

12 ""Many Degrees of Dark and Light"": Sliding the Scale of Whiteness with Simone Lazaroo -- Index.

In: HKU Press digital editionsSummary: Annotation From David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly to Evelyn Lau's Diary of a Runaway to Fred Wah's poetry, diasporic Chinese literature in English is reaching wider audiences. The interdisciplinary essays in Culture, Identity, Commodity provide close textual readings and general theoretical frameworks from American, Australian, and Canadian perspectives for a range of textual productions - novels, autobiographies, plays, and Chinese cooking shows - that address this dynamic field.

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12 ""Many Degrees of Dark and Light"": Sliding the Scale of Whiteness with Simone Lazaroo -- Index.

Annotation From David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly to Evelyn Lau's Diary of a Runaway to Fred Wah's poetry, diasporic Chinese literature in English is reaching wider audiences. The interdisciplinary essays in Culture, Identity, Commodity provide close textual readings and general theoretical frameworks from American, Australian, and Canadian perspectives for a range of textual productions - novels, autobiographies, plays, and Chinese cooking shows - that address this dynamic field.

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