Asian Diasporas - Cultures, Indentity, Representation : Cultures, Identities, Representations

Acknowledgements vii Introduction The Culture of Asian Diasporas: Integrating/Interrogating (Im)migration, Habitus, Textuality 1(14) Robbie B.H. Goh Chapter 1 The Uncertain Configurations of a Politics of Location: The Intersection of Postcolonial, Feminist, and Nationalist Discourses in Understanding Chinese Diasporic Communities 15(18) Ann Brooks Chapter 2 Diaspora and Violence: Cultural/Spatial Production, Abjection, and Exchange 33(20) Robbie B.H. Goh Chapter 3 Theorizing Diasporas: Three Types of Consciousness 53(24) Regina Lee Chapter 4 Cultural Citizenship in Diaspora: A Study of Chinese Australia 77(18) Wenche Ommundsen Chapter 5 Mimics without Menace: Interrogating Hybridity in Bharati Mukherjee's Fiction 95(12) Rebecca Sultana Chapter 6 The Shadow of Diasporic (Auto)Biography: The Traveling-Self in Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family 107(10) Carol E. Leon Chapter 7 Translating Indian Culture from Diaspora 117(14) Alessandro Monti and Rajeshwar Mittapalli Chapter 8 Claiming Diaspora in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Joss & Gold 131(18) Jeffrey F.L. Partridge Chapter 9 Writing the Chinese and Southeast Asian Diasporas in Russell Leong's Phoenix Eyes 149(12) Walter S.H. Lim Chapter 10 Diasporic Communities and Identity Politics: Containing the Political 161(16) Ryan Bishop and John Phillips Notes 177(8) References 185(14) Contributors 199(4) Index 203