Fixer Chao - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fixer Chao write by Han Ong. This book was released on 2002. Fixer Chao available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A novel about love, revenge, art, and feng shui, as a Filipino street hustler assumes the persona of Master Chao, a revered feng shui practitioner from Hong Kong. "Fixer Chao" raises questions of race and privilege, character and identity, and of what it means to be Asian at the turn of the 21st century.
Transitive Cultures
Transitive Cultures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transitive Cultures write by Christopher B. Patterson. This book was released on 2018-04-02. Transitive Cultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Texts written by Southeast Asian migrants have often been read, taught, and studied under the label of multicultural literature. But what if the ideology of multiculturalism—with its emphasis on authenticity and identifiable cultural difference—is precisely what this literature resists? Transitive Cultures offers a new perspective on transpacific Anglophone literature, revealing how these chameleonic writers enact a variety of hybrid, transnational identities and intimacies. Examining literature from Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines, as well as from Southeast Asian migrants in Canada, Hawaii, and the U.S. mainland, this book considers how these authors use English strategically, as a means for building interethnic alliances and critiquing ruling power structures in both Southeast Asia and North America. Uncovering a wealth of texts from queer migrants, those who resist ethnic stereotypes, and those who feel few ties to their ostensible homelands, Transitive Cultures challenges conventional expectations regarding diaspora and minority writers.
Unfastened
Unfastened - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unfastened write by Eleanor Rose Ty. This book was released on . Unfastened available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Unfastenedexamines literary works and films by Asian Americans and Asian Canadians that respond critically to globality—the condition in which traditional national, cultural, geographical, and economic boundaries have been—supposedly—surmounted. In this wide-ranging exploration, Eleanor Ty reveals how novelists such as Brian Ascalon Roley, Han Ong, Lydia Kwa, and Nora Okja Keller interrogate the theoretical freedom that globalization promises in their depiction of the underworld of crime and prostitution. She looks at the social critiques created by playwrights Betty Quan and Sunil Kuruvilla, who use figures of disability to accentuate the effects of marginality. Investigating works based on fantasy, Ty highlights the ways feminist writers Larissa Lai, Chitra Divakaruni, Hiromi Goto, and Ruth Ozeki employ myth, science fiction, and magic realism to provide alternatives to global capitalism. She notes that others, such as filmmaker Deepa Mehta and performers/dramatists Nadine Villasin and Nina Aquino, play with the multiple identities afforded to them by transcultural connections. Ultimately, Ty sees in these diverse narratives unfastened mobile subjects, heroes, and travelers who use everyday tactics to challenge inequitable circumstances in their lives brought about by globalization.
Transnational Asian American Literature
Transnational Asian American Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transnational Asian American Literature write by Shirley Lim. This book was released on 2006. Transnational Asian American Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the diasporic and transnational aspects of Asian-American literature and engages works of prose and poetry as aesthetic articulations of the fluid transnational identities formed by Asian-American writers.
Constructing the Literary Self
Constructing the Literary Self - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constructing the Literary Self write by Patsy J. Daniels. This book was released on 2014-06-02. Constructing the Literary Self available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the twentieth century, as previously excluded groups, including ethnic minorities, women, the disabled, and the differently gendered, gained a voice in society, group identity also changed and new definitions became necessary. Whether through their group affiliations or in spite of these affiliations, many individuals sought a new definition of themselves. As can be expected, much literature explores these changes and depicts the quest for new definitions and the search for individuality in the light of new definitions. Construction or definition of the self was once available only to the elite, and the freedom of some to define their identity was sacrificed so that others could make their own self-definitions; this practice can be found throughout much of history. This volume is about that kind of oppression and various strategies of escaping from oppression as depicted in serious literature. Its thirteen essays, all by recognized scholars, are divided into five categories: Race, Gender, and the Self; Assimilation and the Self; Black Males and the Self; Female Sexuality and the Self; and The Family and the Self.
