Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean

ISBN-13: 9781032447759 / Twarda / 2024 / 216 str.

Elena Igartuburu Garcia

Opis

This book analyzes the emergence of Chinese diasporic literature and art in the Caribbean and its diasporas in the 21st century. It considers the historical and critical discourse about the Chinese diasporas in the Caribbean and proposes a textual and visual archive

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. Chinese Diasporas in the Americas: Theoretical Boundaries and Textual Possibilities

3. Between Diasporas: Community as Solidarity

4. Melancholic Belonging: Colonial Violence and Resolution

5. Emerging Tensions: Coloniality, Bildungsroman, and the Limits of Hope

6. Countervisual Narratives: Visualities, Imaginaries, Archives

7. Conclusion. Towards a Posthuman Vocabulary for Hopeful Futures

Works Cited

Index

O autorze

Elena Igartuburu García is a post-doctoral fellow at Universidad de Oviedo, a member of the research group Intersections, and the research project Solidarities (PID2021-127052OB-I00). She has worked as a teaching associate at UMass Amherst and a visiting scholar at SUNY New Paltz after graduating summa cum laude from the Gender and Diversity PhD program at Universidad de Oviedo in 2015. Her current research focuses on race, gender, movement and choreography in contemporary US and Caribbean texts from the perspective of Performance Studies and Queer and Gender Studies.