Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean - Hopeful Futures

This book analyzes the emergence of Chinese diasporic literature and art in the Caribbean and its diasporas in the 21st century. It considers the historical and critical discourse about the Chinese diasporas in the Caribbean and proposes a textual and visual archive

List of contents

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Chinese Diasporas in the Americas: Theoretical Boundaries and Textual Possibilities
3. Between Diasporas: Community as Solidarity
4. Melancholic Belonging: Colonial Violence and Resolution
5. Emerging Tensions: Coloniality, Bildungsroman, and the Limits of Hope
6. Countervisual Narratives: Visualities, Imaginaries, Archives
7. Conclusion. Towards a Posthuman Vocabulary for Hopeful Futures
Works Cited
Index

About the author

Elena Igartuburu García is a postdoctoral fellow at Universidad de Oviedo, a member of the research group Intersections, and the research project Solidarities (PID2021-127052OB-I00). She has worked as a teaching associate at UMass Amherst and a visiting scholar at SUNY New Paltz after graduating summa cum laude from the Gender and Diversity PhD program at Universidad de Oviedo in 2015. Her current research focuses on race, gender, movement, and choreography in contemporary U.S. and Caribbean texts from the perspective of Performance Studies and Queer and Gender Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Elena Igartuburu Garcia, Elena Igartuburu García
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032447780
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3244778-0
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Latin America, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Asia, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: postcolonial literature