Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture: Asia in Flight

by Sheng-Mei Ma

Book Overview

This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-mei Ma's engaging text discusses issues of self and its relationship with Asian Diaspora culture in the global twenty-first century.

Using examples from Asia, Asian America, and Asian Diaspora from the West, the book weaves a narrative that challenges the twenty-first century triumphal discourse...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415855349
• ISBN13: 9780415855341
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"