Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean: Hopeful Futures analyzes the emergence of Chinese diasporic literature and art in the Caribbean and its diasporas in the twenty-first century. This book considers the historical and critical discourse about the Chinese diasporas in the Caribbean and proposes a textual and visual archive selecting contemporary texts that signal a changing paradigm in postcolonial literature at the turn of the twenty-first century. Whereas, historically, Chinese minorities had been erased or presented as ultimate Others, contemporary texts mobilize Chinese characters and their stories strategically to propose alternative configurations of community and belonging grounded in affective structures and contest the coloniality of national imaginaries.
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Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean
Hopeful Futures
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Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean
Hopeful Futures
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Chinese Diasporas in the Americas: Theoretical Boundaries and Textual Possibilities
- 3 Between Diasporas: Community as Solidarity
- 4 Melancholic Belonging: Colonial Violence and Resolution
- 5 Emerging Tensions: Coloniality, Bildungsroman, and the Limits of Hope
- 6 Countervisual Narratives: Visualities, Imaginaries, Archives
- 7 Conclusion: Toward a Posthuman Vocabulary for Hopeful Futures
- Index
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