Kardux, Johanna C.
[Editor];
Einsiedel, Doris
[Other]
Moving migration
: narrative transformations in Asian American literature ; [ this volume has emerged from the sixth Biennial MESEA Conference on "Migration Matters: immigration, homelands, and border crossings in Europe and the Americas" in Leiden, the Netherlands, in june 2008]
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Title:
Moving migration
:
narrative transformations in Asian American literature ; [ this volume has emerged from the sixth Biennial MESEA Conference on "Migration Matters: immigration, homelands, and border crossings in Europe and the Americas" in Leiden, the Netherlands, in june 2008]
Contains:
Introduction: On movements and two-way interactions / Doris Einsiedel and Johanna C. Kardux -- Part 1: Time travel: migration to the past -- Colonial recall in motion: migration acts in Desirable daughters and The namesake / Doris Einsiedel -- "Little daily miracles": global desires, haunted memories, and modern technologies in Madeleine Thien's Certainty / Eleanor Ty -- Intimate details: scrutiny and evidentiary photographs in Kerri Sakamoto's The electrical field / Monica Chiu -- Migration and self-transformation in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine and Kiran Desai's The inheritance of loss / Øyunn Hestetun -- Part 2: "Model minority" goes postethnic? -- Poetic passages: identity crossings in Meena Alexander's Fault lines / Stella Oh -- The Americanization/Westernization of Jackie Chan: Shanghai noon as model minority discourse / Su-Ching Huang -- Discourses of belonging: language and identities in gay Asian American drama / Astrid Haas -- Migrating multiculturalisms in Zadie Smith's On beauty and Gish Jen's Mona in the promised land / Pirjo Ahokas -- Part 3: Autobiographical detail and knitting networks -- "From a far": unifying divisions in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée / Keith A. Russell II -- Ha Jin's A free life: revisiting the künstlerroman / Bettina Hofmann -- Blurred borders: educational migration, networks, and the creation of transnational social space / Tamara Yakaboski -- Reading Asian American academic autobiographies: migration and transdisciplinary border crossings in Shirley Lim and Yi-Fu Tuan / Rocío G. Davis.
Description:
Introduction: On movements and two-way interactions / Doris Einsiedel and Johanna C. Kardux -- Part 1: Time travel: migration to the past -- Colonial recall in motion: migration acts in Desirable daughters and The namesake / Doris Einsiedel -- "Little daily miracles": global desires, haunted memories, and modern technologies in Madeleine Thien's Certainty / Eleanor Ty -- Intimate details: scrutiny and evidentiary photographs in Kerri Sakamoto's The electrical field / Monica Chiu -- Migration and self-transformation in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine and Kiran Desai's The inheritance of loss / (c)yunn Hestetun -- Part 2: "Model minority" goes postethnic? -- Poetic passages: identity crossings in Meena Alexander's Fault lines / Stella Oh -- The Americanization/Westernization of Jackie Chan: Shanghai noon as model minority discourse / Su-Ching Huang -- Discourses of belonging: language and identities in gay Asian American drama / Astrid Haas -- Migrating multiculturalisms in Zadie Smith's On beauty and Gish Jen's Mona in the promised land / Pirjo Ahokas -- Part 3: Autobiographical detail and knitting networks -- "From a far": unifying divisions in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dict(c)♭e / Keith A. Russell II -- Ha Jin's A free life: revisiting the k(c)ơnstlerroman / Bettina Hofmann -- Blurred borders: educational migration, networks, and the creation of transnational social space / Tamara Yakaboski -- Reading Asian American academic autobiographies: migration and transdisciplinary border crossings in Shirley Lim and Yi-Fu Tuan / Roc(c)Ưo G. Davis