Asian diaspora and East-West modernity /
In this book, Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity, Sheng-mei Ma analyzes Asian, Asian diaspora, and Orientalist discourse and probes into the conjoinedness of West and East and modernity's illusions. Drawing from Anglo-American, Asian American, and Asian literature, as well as J-horror and m...
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| Language: | English |
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West Lafayette, IN :
Purdue University Press,
©2012.
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| Series: | Comparative cultural studies.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=493486 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Digging to China (or America)
- Chapter 1. Asian Cell and Horror
- Chapter 2. Asian Diaspora Does Vegas
- Chapter 3. Diasporic Authors of Children's and Young Adult Books
- Chapter 4. A Child's Passing into Asian Diaspora
- Chapter 5. yEast for Modern Cannibals
- Chapter 6. Bugman in Modernity
- Chapter 7. Kim Ki-duk's Nonperson Films
- Chapter 8. Nakazawa's A-bomb, Tezuka's Adolf, and Kobayashi's Apologia
- Chapter 9. Orientation Goes to War in the Twentieth Century
- Chapter 10. Hyperreal Beijing and the 2008 Olympics
- Works Cited
- Index.