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Narratives for a New Belonging : Diasporic Cultural Fictions / Roger Bromley.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Tendencies: Identities, Texts, Cultures : TITCPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (182 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748609512
  • 9781474465427
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.93355 21
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor's Introduction -- Introduction: The Third Scenario -- 1 Sliding against the Masks of Newer Selves: Hyphenation and the Mestiza - Jasmine, The Woman Warrior and Borderlands -- 2 Notes of a Native Speaker: Becoming Asian-American - The Joy Luck Club, Typical American, Bone and The Wedding Banquet -- 3 This Body is Your Only Real Home: Migrancy and Identity - Dreaming in Cuban, Native Speaker, Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers and My Year of Meat -- 4 We Need to Speak Even with Our Mouths on the Ground: Becoming Asian-Canadian - Disappearing Moon Cafe, Diamond Grill and Chorus of Mushrooms -- 5 Knowing Your Place: Becoming Black/ Asian-British (1): Song of the Boatwoman, The Map-Makers of Spitalfields and Fruit of the Lemon -- 6 Britain's Children Without a Home: Becoming Black/ Asian-British (2) - The Buddha of Suburbia, Anita and Me, Bhaji on the Beach and East is East -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Cultural fictions - texts written from the perspective of the edge - are the focus of this exciting and enlightening book. The author examines the formations of narratives of identity in contemporary 'borderline' fictions and films. The work of migrant and marginalised groups located at the boundaries of nations, cultures, classes, ethnicities, sexualities and genders, is explored through an intricate weaving of theory with textual analysis. Organised around the themes of memory, tradition and 'belonging', the book proposes the space of 'migrant' writing - an emerging third space - as one that challenges fixed assumptions about identity.The cross-cultural range - including texts from British, Caribbean, Chinese-American, Indo-Caribbean, Canadian, Cuban and Indian writers; the original discussion of authors such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Gloria Anzaldua, Amy Tan, Gish Jen, Hanif Kureishi and Chang-rae Lee; and engagement with the work of theorists including Bakhtin, Freud, Lyotard, de Certeau, Deleuze and Guattari, produces a significant contribution to the broadening definitions of ethnicity and the 'post-colonial'.Works explored include Jasmine, Borderlands, The Joy Luck Club, The Wedding Banquet, Dreaming in Cuban, My Year of Meat, Buddha of Suburbia and East is East. These contemporary texts and films will make this book accessible to a broad range of readers.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor's Introduction -- Introduction: The Third Scenario -- 1 Sliding against the Masks of Newer Selves: Hyphenation and the Mestiza - Jasmine, The Woman Warrior and Borderlands -- 2 Notes of a Native Speaker: Becoming Asian-American - The Joy Luck Club, Typical American, Bone and The Wedding Banquet -- 3 This Body is Your Only Real Home: Migrancy and Identity - Dreaming in Cuban, Native Speaker, Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers and My Year of Meat -- 4 We Need to Speak Even with Our Mouths on the Ground: Becoming Asian-Canadian - Disappearing Moon Cafe, Diamond Grill and Chorus of Mushrooms -- 5 Knowing Your Place: Becoming Black/ Asian-British (1): Song of the Boatwoman, The Map-Makers of Spitalfields and Fruit of the Lemon -- 6 Britain's Children Without a Home: Becoming Black/ Asian-British (2) - The Buddha of Suburbia, Anita and Me, Bhaji on the Beach and East is East -- Bibliography -- Index

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Cultural fictions - texts written from the perspective of the edge - are the focus of this exciting and enlightening book. The author examines the formations of narratives of identity in contemporary 'borderline' fictions and films. The work of migrant and marginalised groups located at the boundaries of nations, cultures, classes, ethnicities, sexualities and genders, is explored through an intricate weaving of theory with textual analysis. Organised around the themes of memory, tradition and 'belonging', the book proposes the space of 'migrant' writing - an emerging third space - as one that challenges fixed assumptions about identity.The cross-cultural range - including texts from British, Caribbean, Chinese-American, Indo-Caribbean, Canadian, Cuban and Indian writers; the original discussion of authors such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Gloria Anzaldua, Amy Tan, Gish Jen, Hanif Kureishi and Chang-rae Lee; and engagement with the work of theorists including Bakhtin, Freud, Lyotard, de Certeau, Deleuze and Guattari, produces a significant contribution to the broadening definitions of ethnicity and the 'post-colonial'.Works explored include Jasmine, Borderlands, The Joy Luck Club, The Wedding Banquet, Dreaming in Cuban, My Year of Meat, Buddha of Suburbia and East is East. These contemporary texts and films will make this book accessible to a broad range of readers.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)