Where I have never been migration, melancholia, and memory in Asian American narratives of return
"In researching accounts of diasporic Chinese offspring who returned to their parents' ancestral country, author Patricia Chu learned that she was not alone in the experience of growing up in America with an abstract affinity to an ancestral homeland and community. The bittersweet emotions...
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Philadelphia ; Rome ; Tokyo
Temple University Press
[2019]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Asian American history and culture
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction
- "Ears Attuned to Two Cultures": Reconciling Accounts in Cultural Curiosity
- Transpacific Echos in the Family Memoir: Sojourns and Returns in Lisa See's On Gold Mountain
- "The One Who Mediates": Mimicry, Melancholia, and Countermemory in The Concubine's Children
- Working Through Diasporic Melancholia: Winberg and May-lee Chai's The Girl From Purple Mountain
- "A Being ... from a Different World": Yung Wing and the Making of a Global Subjectivity
- "To Bring the Dead to Life": Countermemories in Minatoya's Stangeness of Beauty and Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being
- Coda