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Informationen zum Autor Tseen Khoo Klappentext Focusing on Asian-Australian cultural production and identity! this work interrogates notions of belonging and citizenship! representational politics! and disciplinarity in the academy. It features essays that examine the politics of Asian-Australian art and literature! and the area's significant interventions in disciplinary formations. Zusammenfassung Locating Asian Australian Cultures is a timely and challenging interdisciplinary compilation that sets a contemporary benchmark for Asian Australian studies and its future directions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Disciplines 1.1 Disciplining Asian Australian Studies: Projections and Introjections 1.2 Critical Response to 'Disciplining Asian Australian Studies': An Asian American Perspective 1.3 Asian Australian Studies and Asian German StudiesText1.1 'Flexible Citizenship': Strategic Chinese Identities in 'Asian Australian' Literature 1.2 No Place like Home: The Ambivalent Rhetoric of Hospitality in Chinese Australian Literature 1.3 Asian Australian Literature and Postcolonialism Image 1.1 Telling Stories: The Sacrificial Asian in Australian Cinema 1.2 Re-Configuring the Diasporic and Indigenous in the Art of Zhou Xiaoping 1.3 Thanatophilia: William Yang's Sadness and the Other Community 1.4 Beyond the Provincialist Bind: Contemporaneity in Asian Australian Art Sites 1.1 Australian Chinatowns 1.2 At Cabravale Park: Recognition! Defacement! and the Vietnamese-Australian War Memorial 1.3 Identity and Bengali Australians Politics 1.1 Citizenship as a Frame of Contestation in Asian Australian Parliamentary Maiden Speeches 1.2 'The Tyranny of Appearance': Chinese Australian identities and the politics of 'difference' 1.3 Grafton to Guangzhou: The Revolutionary Journey of Tse Tsan Tai
