Transitive cultures : Anglophone literature of the transpacific /
"Since the early 1990s, Asian American studies scholars have often read migrant texts as diasporic, and have seen the Asian migrant as caught between a mythical homeland and an imperial host country. Transitive Cultures seeks to shift from diaspora as a framework that reinstitutes national cate...
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: pluralism, transition, and the Anglophone
- Multiracial clans in colorful Malaya: pluralism, intimacy, and transition
- So that the sparks that fly will fly in all directions: pluralism and revolution in the Philippines
- Liberal tolerance and Asian migrancy: migrancy, satire, and reciprocity
- Just an American darker than the rest: on queer brown exile
- Mutant hybrids seek the global unconscious: cynicism, chick-lit, ecstasy
- Speculative fiction and authorial transition
- Conclusion: identity, authenticity, collectivity .
