At Home in the Chinese Diaspora: Memories, Identities and Belongings

By Kuah-Pearce Khun Eng

Book Overview

This book explores how memories are used to re-establish a sense of belonging, analyzing the relationships between migrants' adjustment, assimilation and re-membering home. It considers memories as social expressions as well as the tensions and conflicts in representing and renegotiating memories in literature and cinema.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349353302
• ISBN13: 9781349353309
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"