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Introduction Culture, Identity, Commodity: Testing Diasporic Literary Boundaries
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- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgements ix
- Contributors xi
- Culture, Identity, Commodity: Testing Diasporic Literary Boundaries 1
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Commodifying Desires
- “Peeking Ducks” and “Food Pornographers”: Comrnodifying Culinary Chinese Americanness 19
- Market Forces and Powerful Desires: Reading Evelyn Lau’s Cultural Labor 39
- “There’re a Billion Bellies Out There”: Commodity Fetishism, The Uber-Oriental, and the Geopolitics of Desire in David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly 59
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Diasporic Re-Visitations
- “How Taste Remembers Life”: Diasporic Memory and Community in Fred Wah’s Poetry 81
- “Where are You From?”: New Imaginings of Identity in Chinese-Australian Writing 107
- The Problem of Diaspora: On Chinese Canadian Cultural Production in English 129
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Sexing Diaspora
- “Forays into Acts of Transformation”: Queering Chinese-Canadian Diasporic Fictions 153
- Decentring Orientalist and Ocker Masculinities in Birds of Passage 183
- Exporting Feminism: Jade Snow Wong’s Global Tour 205
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The “Other” Self
- Sleep No More: Ouyang Yu’s Wake-Up Call to Multicultural Australia 231
- On Ascriptive and Acquisitional Americanness: The Accidental Asian and the Illogic of Assimilation 253
- “Many Degrees of Dark and Light”: Sliding the Scale of Whiteness With Simone Lazaroo 279
- Index 299
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgements ix
- Contributors xi
- Culture, Identity, Commodity: Testing Diasporic Literary Boundaries 1
-
Commodifying Desires
- “Peeking Ducks” and “Food Pornographers”: Comrnodifying Culinary Chinese Americanness 19
- Market Forces and Powerful Desires: Reading Evelyn Lau’s Cultural Labor 39
- “There’re a Billion Bellies Out There”: Commodity Fetishism, The Uber-Oriental, and the Geopolitics of Desire in David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly 59
-
Diasporic Re-Visitations
- “How Taste Remembers Life”: Diasporic Memory and Community in Fred Wah’s Poetry 81
- “Where are You From?”: New Imaginings of Identity in Chinese-Australian Writing 107
- The Problem of Diaspora: On Chinese Canadian Cultural Production in English 129
-
Sexing Diaspora
- “Forays into Acts of Transformation”: Queering Chinese-Canadian Diasporic Fictions 153
- Decentring Orientalist and Ocker Masculinities in Birds of Passage 183
- Exporting Feminism: Jade Snow Wong’s Global Tour 205
-
The “Other” Self
- Sleep No More: Ouyang Yu’s Wake-Up Call to Multicultural Australia 231
- On Ascriptive and Acquisitional Americanness: The Accidental Asian and the Illogic of Assimilation 253
- “Many Degrees of Dark and Light”: Sliding the Scale of Whiteness With Simone Lazaroo 279
- Index 299