Locating Asian Australian Cultures

ISBN-13: 9780415411486 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 256 str.

Opis

Focusing on Asian-Australian cultural production and identity, this work interrogates notions of belonging and citizenship, representational politics, and disciplinarity in the academy. It features essays that examine the politics of Asian-Australian art a

Spis treści

Disciplines  1.1 Disciplining Asian Australian Studies: Projections and Introjections  1.2 Critical Response to 'Disciplining Asian Australian Studies': An Asian American Perspective  1.3 Asian Australian Studies and Asian German Studies  Text  1.1 ‘Flexible Citizenship’: Strategic Chinese Identities in ‘Asian Australian’ Literature  1.2 No Place like Home: The Ambivalent Rhetoric of Hospitality in Chinese Australian Literature  1.3 Asian Australian Literature and Postcolonialism  Image  1.1 Telling Stories: The Sacrificial Asian in Australian Cinema  1.2 Re-Configuring the Diasporic and Indigenous in the Art of Zhou Xiaoping  1.3 Thanatophilia: William Yang’s Sadness and the Other Community  1.4 Beyond the Provincialist Bind: Contemporaneity in Asian Australian Art  Sites  1.1 Australian Chinatowns  1.2 At Cabravale Park: Recognition, Defacement, and the Vietnamese-Australian War Memorial  1.3 Identity and Bengali Australians  Politics  1.1 Citizenship as a Frame of Contestation in Asian Australian Parliamentary Maiden Speeches  1.2 ‘The Tyranny of Appearance’: Chinese Australian identities and the politics of ‘difference’  1.3 Grafton to Guangzhou: The Revolutionary Journey of Tse Tsan Tai

O autorze

Tseen Khoo