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Locating Asian Australian Cultures
About this book
Locating Asian Australian Cultures is a timely and challenging interdisciplinary compilation that sets a contemporary benchmark for Asian Australian studies and its future directions.
In the dynamic field of diasporic Asian studies, Asian Australian Studies is an emerging and contentious area. While cognisant of issues and critical developments in North America, Europe, and Asia, Asian Australian studies forges its own specific engagements with questions of identity, racialization, and nationalisms in a world of globalized cultures and movements. This book deliberately engages with international perspectives on Asian Australian studies that offer contingent connections and address crucial questions for fields that are rapidly 'de-nationalizing'.
The volume focuses on Asian Australian cultural production and identity, presenting work that interrogates notions of belonging and citizenship, representational politics, and disciplinarity in the academy. The broad-ranging essays examine the politics of Asian Australian art and literature, as well as the area's significant interventions in disciplinary formations nationally and internationally. Other essays discuss the Vietnamese War memorial in Cabramatta, notions of the 'sacrificial Asian' in contemporary films, and Chinatown sites in Australia.
This book will be essential reading not only for researchers in Asian Australian studies but also for those with an interest in Asian diaspora and Australian studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- 1. Introduction: Locating Asian Australian Cultures
- 2. Disciplining Asian Australian Studies: Projections and Introjections
- 3. Re-Configuring the Diasporic and Indigenous in the Art of Zhou Xiaoping
- 4. Telling Stories: The Sacrificial Asian in Australian Cinema
- 5. 'The Tyranny of Appearance': Chinese Australian Identities and the Politics of Difference
- 6. The Aesthetics of Simplicity: Yang's Sadness and the Melancholic Community
- 7. Grafton to Guangzhou: The Revolutionary Journey of Tse Tsan Tai
- 8. 'No Place Like Home': The Ambivalent Rhetoric of Hospitality in the Work of Simone Lazaroo, Arlene Chai, and Hsu-Ming Teo
- 9. Touring the Phantom Agent: Recognition, Defacement and the Vietnamese Australian War Memorial
- 10. 'Growing up an Australian': Renegotiating Mateship, Masculinity and 'Australianness' in Hsu-Ming Teo's Behind the Moon
- 11. Travelling Theory, Reshaping Disciplines? Envisioning Asian Germany through Asian Australian Studies
- 12. Asian Australian Citizenship as a Frame of Enactment in the Parliamentary 'First Speech'
- 13. 'Flexible Citizenship': Strategic Chinese Identities in Asian Australian Literature
- 14. Afterword: Other Genealogies of Asian Australian Studies: A Trans-Pacific Perspective
- 15. Conclusion: Locating Asian Australian Cultures
- Index