Sinophone studies : a critical reader /

"This definitive anthology casts Sinophone studies as the study of Sinitic-language cultures born of colonial and postcolonial influences. Its transnational and comparative essays by such authors as Rey Chow, Ha Jin, Leo Ou-fan Lee, Ien Ang, Wei-ming Tu, and David Wang address debates concernin...

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Other Authors: Shih, Shu-mei, 1961- (Editor), Tsai, Chien-hsin, 1975- (Editor), Bernards, Brian (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]
Series:Global Chinese culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • Against diaspora : the Sinophone as places of cultural production / Shu-mei Shih
  • On Chineseness as a theoretical problem / Rey Chow
  • Can one say no to Chineseness? : pushing the limits of the diasporic paradigm / Ien Ang
  • Sinophone/Chinese : "The South where language is lost" and reinvented / Kim Chew Ng
  • Post-loyalism / David Der-wei Wang
  • Exiled to English / Ha Jin
  • Chineseness : the dilemmas of place and practice / Gungwu Wang
  • Cultural China : the periphery as the center / Wei-ming Tu
  • On the margins of the Chinese discourse / Leo Ou-fan Lee
  • The structure of dual domination : toward a paradigm for the study of the Chinese diaspora in the United States / Ling-chi Wang
  • Intra-local and inter-local Sinophone : rhizomatic politics of Hong Kong writers Saisai and Wong Bik-wan / Mirana May Szeto
  • Things, common/places, passages of the port city : on Hong Kong and Hong Kong author Leung Ping-kwan / Rey Chow
  • Taiwan fiction under japanese colonial rule, 1895-1945 / Chien-chung Chen
  • Sinophone indigenous literature of Taiwan : history and tradition / Hsinya Huang
  • Writing beyond boudoirs : Sinophone literature by female writers in contemporary Taiwan / Pei-Yin Lin
  • Of guest and host : Zhong Lihe, Hakka, and Sinophone hospitality / Chien-hsin Tsai
  • On the margins of Tibetanness : three decades of Sinophone Tibetan literature / Patricia Schiaffini
  • Danger in the voice : Alai and the Sinophone / Carlos Rojas
  • Sinophone Malaysian literature : an overview / Kim Tong Tee
  • Transcending multiracialism : Kuo Pao Kun's multilingual play Mama looking for her cat and the concept of open culture / E.K. Tan
  • Plantation and rainforest : Chang Kuei-hsing and South Seas discourse of coloniality and nature / Brian Bernards
  • Inverted islands : Sinophone New Zealand literature / Jacob Edmond
  • Beneath two red banners : Lao She as a Manchu writer in modern China / Carles Prado-Fonts
  • Found in translation : Gao Xingjian's multimedial Sinophone / Andrea Bachner
  • Generational effects in racialization : representations of African Americans in Sinophone Chinese American literature / Sau-ling C. Wong
  • At the threshold of the Gold Mountain : reading Angel Island poetry / Te-hsing Shan
  • The Chinese immigrant as a global figure in Lin Yutang's novels / Shuang Shen
  • Latin America and the Caribbean in a Sinophone studies reader? / Ignacio López-Calvo.