Transpacific Cartographies

Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States

Melody Yunzi Li (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

212 Seiten

2023
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2934-3 (ISBN)

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Transpacific Cartographies examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-US tensions. Focusing on cultural productions of the Chinese diaspora from the 1990s to the present -- including novels by the Sinophone writers Yan Geling (The Criminal Lu Yanshi), Shi Yu (New York Lover), Chen Qian (Listen to the Caged Bird Sing), and Rong Rong (Notes of a Couple), as well as by the Anglophone writer Ha Jin (A Free Life; A Map of Betrayal), selected TV shows (Beijinger in New York; The Way We Were), and online literature -- Melody Yunzi Li argues that the characters in these stories create multilayered maps that transcend the territorial boundaries that make finding a home in a foreign land a seemingly impossible task. In doing so, these “maps” outline a transpacific landscape that reflects the psycho-geography of homemaking for diasporic communities. Intersecting with and bridging Sinophone studies, Chinese American studies, and diaspora studies and drawing on theories of literary cartography, Transpacific Cartographies demonstrates how these “maps” offer their readers different paths for finding a sense of home no matter where they are.

MELODY YUNZI LI is an assistant professor in Chinese studies at the University of Houston, Texas. She is the coeditor of Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora.

Introduction

1 Mapping Experiences of De/Reterritorialization:

Ha Jin’s A Map of Betrayal

2 Cartographing Carceral Dystopia in the Mao Era:

Yan Geling’s The Criminal Lu Yanshi

3 Affective Mapping of Touristic Diasporic Experience

4 Palimpsestic Map of the American and Chinese Dreams:

Contested Sites in Overseas Chinese Immigrant Stories

Coda: Charting an Online Chinese Diasporic Literary Map

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.12.2023
Zusatzinfo	8 B-W illustrations
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	64 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-2934-5 / 1978829345
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-2934-3 / 9781978829343
Zustand	Neuware