On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West

ISBN-13: 9780415259132 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 240 str.

Ien Ang

Opis

Leading cultural thinker Ien Ang engages with urgent questions of identity in an age of globalization and diaspora. Ang reflects upon tensions between Asia' and the West' at a national and global level, and considers the disparate meanings of Chineseness' in the contemporary world. Ang then turns to the West', exploring the paradox of Australia's identity as a Western' country in the Asian region, and tracing Australia's uneasy relationship with its Asian neighbors, from the White Australia policy to contemporary multicultural society. Finally, Ang draws together her discussion of Asia' and the West' to consider the social and intellectual space of the in-between', arguing for a theorizing not of difference' but of togetherness' in contemporary societies.

Recenzje

'Clearly written and well-argued . . . this book makes a valuable contribution, not only to current debates in the field of cultural studies and identity politics, but also to the international debate on the Chinese diaspora and Chinese identity.' - Chinese Information

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgments. Introduction: Between Asia and the West Beyond Asia: Deconstructing Diaspora 1. On Not Speaking Chinese - Postmodern Ethnicity and the Politics of Diaspora 2. Can One Say No to the Chineseness? - Pushing the Limits of Diasporic Paradigm 3. Indonesia on My Mind - Diaspora, Internet and the Struggle for Hybridity 4. Undoing Diaspora - Questioning Global Chineseness Beyond the West: Negotiating Multiculturalism 5. Multiculturalism in Crisis - The New Politics of Race and National Identity in Australia 6. Asians and Australians - A Contradiction in Terms? 7. Racial/Spatial Anxeity - 'Asia' in the Psycho-Geography of Australian Whiteness 8. The Curse of the Smile - Ambivalence and the Asian Woman in Multicultural Australia 9. Identity Blues - Rescuing Cosmopolitanism in the Era of Globalization Beyond Identity 10. Local/Global Negotiations - Doing Cultural Studies at the Crossroads 11. I'm a Feminist but... - 'Other Women' and Postnational Identities 12. Conclusion: Together in Difference - The Uses and Abuses of Hybridity Notes. Bibliography. Index.

O autorze

Ien Ang is Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the Institute for Cultural Studies Research at the University of Western Sydney, Nepean. She is the author of a number of books, including Watching Dallas (1985), Desperately Seeking the Audience (1991) and Living Room Wars (1995)