Transpacific Cartographies - Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States

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. Melody Li argues that the characters in these stories create multilayered maps that transcend the territorial boundaries that make finding a home in foreign land a seemingly impossible task.

List of contents

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

 

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Melody Yunzi Li
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.01.2024
• EAN: 9781978829343
• ISBN: 978-1-978829-34-3
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Asian American Studies Today
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore