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OverviewWinner, 2021 CCCC Outstanding Book Award Inconvenient Strangers: Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship draws attention to how intersecting networks of power-particularly race and ethnicity, gender, and social class-marginalize transnational subjects who find themselves outside a dominant citizenship that privileges familiarity and socioeconomic and racial superiority. In this study of how neoliberal ideas limit citizenship for marginalized populations in Hong Kong, Shui-yin Sharon Yam examines how three transnational groups-mainland Chinese maternal tourists, Southeast Asian migrant domestic workers, and South Asian permanent residents-engage with the existing citizenry and gain recognition through circulating personal narratives. Coupling transnational feminist studies with research on emotions, Yam analyzes court cases, interviews, social media discourse, and the personal narratives of Hong Kong's marginalized groups to develop the concept of deliberative empathy-critical empathy that prompts an audience to consider the structural sources of another's suffering while deliberating one's own complicity in it. Yam argues that storytelling and familial narratives can promote deliberative empathy among the audience as both a political and ethical response-carrying the affective power to jolt the dominant citizenry out of their usual xenophobic attitudes and ultimately prompt them to critically consider the human conditions they share with the marginalized and move them toward more ethical coalitions. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Shui-Yin Sharon YamPublisher: Ohio State University Press Imprint: Ohio State University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.345kg ISBN: 9780814255513ISBN 10: 0814255515 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 27 September 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsCombining transnational, feminist, and citizenship studies, Yam's critique of racial and sexual discriminations in Hong Kong strikes a chord with any multicultural and multiethnic society. --Hui Wu Inconvenient Strangers expands and stretches scholarship on citizenship significantly, providing important comparative arguments about power, oppression, and (post)colonialism. It develops a nuanced vocabulary that challenges tired approaches to recognition, identification, solidarity, and witnessing and offers a new orientation to existing understandings of nation, diaspora, and colonialism. Its promise is immense. --Arabella Lyon Inconvenient Strangers expands and stretches scholarship on citizenship significantly, providing important comparative arguments about power, oppression, and (post)colonialism. It develops a nuanced vocabulary that challenges tired approaches to recognition, identification, solidarity, and witnessing and offers a new orientation to existing understandings of nation, diaspora, and colonialism. Its promise is immense. --Arabella Lyon Combining transnational, feminist, and citizenship studies, Yam's critique of racial and sexual discriminations in Hong Kong strikes a chord with any multicultural and multiethnic society. --Hui Wu Author InformationShui-yin Sharon Yam is Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |