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Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States: Asian American Studies Today

Autor Melody Yunzi Li
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Transpacific Cartographies examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-US tensions. Focusing on cultural productions of the Chinese diaspora from the 1990s to the present -- including novels by the Sinophone writers Yan Geling (The Criminal Lu Yanshi), Shi Yu (New York Lover), Chen Qian (Listen to the Caged Bird Sing), and Rong Rong (Notes of a Couple), as well as by the Anglophone writer Ha Jin (A Free LifeA Map of Betrayal), selected TV shows (Beijinger in New York; The Way We Were), and online literature -- Melody Yunzi Li argues that the characters in these stories create multilayered maps that transcend the territorial boundaries that make finding a home in a foreign land a seemingly impossible task. In doing so, these “maps” outline a transpacific landscape that reflects the psycho-geography of homemaking for diasporic communities. Intersecting with and bridging Sinophone studies, Chinese American studies, and diaspora studies and drawing on theories of literary cartography, Transpacific Cartographies demonstrates how these “maps” offer their readers different paths for finding a sense of home no matter where they are.
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781978829343
ISBN-10: 1978829345
Pagini: 212
Ilustrații: 8 B-W illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.06 kg
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Seria Asian American Studies Today


Notă biografică

MELODY YUNZI LI is an assistant professor in Chinese studies at the University of Houston, Texas. She is the co-editor of Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora.

Cuprins

Introduction 
1 Mapping Experiences of De/Reterritorialization:
Ha Jin’s A Map of Betrayal
2 Cartographing Carceral Dystopia in the Mao Era:
Yan Geling’s The Criminal Lu Yanshi
3 Affective Mapping of Touristic Diasporic Experience
4 Palimpsestic Map of the American and Chinese Dreams:
Contested Sites in Overseas Chinese Immigrant Stories
Coda: Charting an Online Chinese Diasporic Literary Map
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography 
Index

 

Recenzii

"This exploration stands out as a significant contribution to the discourse. . . . Li offers a fresh perspective on the experiences of the Chinese diaspora in recent decades, enriching our understanding of their cultural and social dynamics. . . . Li’s book thoughtfully extends the scope of traditional literary and cinematic studies to encompass a diverse array of genres and historical periods."
"Transpacific Cartographies is an invaluable resource for students, scholars and researchers of Sinophone studies, Asian American studies and literary cartographies, as well as for general readers interested in the Chinese diasporic experience more broadly. What is more, Li's text positions itself as a useful starting point for future comparative studies of how different Asian diasporic groups map their home concepts."
"Transpacific Cartographies examines diasporic psycho-social instabilities and emergences in timely, fresh, coherent ways never done before. At a time of perilous, if not phobic, interactions between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, Melody Li’s focus on the reworlding dynamics and transpacific complexities of “home” from bilingual and diasporic writers like Ha Jin and Yan Geling create insights that are everywhere fresh, poetic, transcultural, uncanny, and elegant."

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Transpacific Cartographies examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-US tensions. Melody Li argues that the characters in these stories create multilayered maps that transcend the territorial boundaries that make finding a home in foreign land a seemingly impossible task.