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  1. Culture, identity, commodity
    diasporic Chinese literatures in English
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong

    12 ""Many Degrees of Dark and Light"": Sliding the Scale of Whiteness with Simone Lazaroo -- Index. 5 ""Where are you from?"": New Imaginings of Identity in Chinese-Australian Writing -- 6 The Problem of Diaspora: On Chinese Canadian Cultural... more

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    12 ""Many Degrees of Dark and Light"": Sliding the Scale of Whiteness with Simone Lazaroo -- Index. 5 ""Where are you from?"": New Imaginings of Identity in Chinese-Australian Writing -- 6 The Problem of Diaspora: On Chinese Canadian Cultural Production in English -- 7 ""Forays into Acts of Transformation"": Queering Chinese-Canadian Diasporic Fictions -- 8 Decentring Orientalist and Ocker Masculinities in Birds of Passage -- 9 Exporting Feminism: Jade Snow Wong's Global Tour -- 10 Sleep No More: Ouyang Yu's Wake-up Call to Multicultural Australia -- 11 On Ascriptive and Acquisitional Americanness: The Accidental Asian and the Illogic of Assimilation. Annotation Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- INTRODUCTION Culture, Identity, Commodity: Testing Diasporic Literary Boundaries -- 1 ""Peeking Ducks"" and ""Food Pomographers"": Commodifying Culinary Chinese Americanness -- 2 Market Forces and Powerful Desires: Reading Evelyn Lau's Cultural Labor -- 3 ""There're a Billion Bellies Out There"": Commodity Fetishism, The Uber-Oriental, and the Geopolitics of Desire in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly -- 4 ""How Taste Remembers Life"": Diasporic Memory and Community in Fred Wah's Poetry. From David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly to Evelyn Lau's Diary of a Runaway to Fred Wah's poetry, diasporic Chinese literature in English is reaching wider audiences. The interdisciplinary essays in Culture, Identity, Commodity provide close textual readings and general theoretical frameworks from American, Australian, and Canadian perspectives for a range of textual productions - novels, autobiographies, plays, and Chinese cooking shows - that address this dynamic field

     
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  2. Asian English Writers of Chinese Origin
    Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne

    This is the first book to bring together nine Asian English writers of Chinese descent from Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong: Catherine Lim, Christine Lim, Ee Tiang Hong, Kee Thuan Chye, Lee Kok Liang, Shirley Lim, Timothy Mo, Xu Xi and Agnes Lam.... more

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    This is the first book to bring together nine Asian English writers of Chinese descent from Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong: Catherine Lim, Christine Lim, Ee Tiang Hong, Kee Thuan Chye, Lee Kok Liang, Shirley Lim, Timothy Mo, Xu Xi and Agnes Lam. It discusses how the Otherdrawal of colonial power and the implementation of nation-building policies impact race/ethnicity, class and language in these former British colonies. The last chapters take a special look at postcolonialism and gender pol

     
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