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Author:   Jean Amato ,  Kyunghee Pyun
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.540kg
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9781032446134

ISBN 10:   1032446137
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   20 December 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Beyond Borders: Diasporic Explorations of Homes and Ancestral Homelands Part I: Homelands, Nations, and Migrations: hardening and softening of borders and boundaries 2. Altneuland: Nationalism and Colonial Myth in Theodor Herzl, Franz Kafka, and Felix Salten. 3. The Search for a Home in Migratory Societies: Evaluating Hikmet Temel Akarsu’s Adoration for Abroad in the Context of Architecture and Migration. 4. Hong Kong: Home as Gong Wu Between the Local, the National, the Colonial, and the Global. Part II Fluid Homes, Fluid Identities: Gender Roles and Multi-layered Notions of Home 5. The Identity of the Caribbean “Others”: Maryse Condé and the Women’s Question in Diaspora. 6. “Shameless Old Men”: Home, Domesticity, Queerness, and the Latvian American Writer Anšlavs Eglītis. 7. Intertextuality and Fragmentation in Rabih Alameddine’s I, The Divine: The Crisis of Transnational Identity and Immigration. 8. To Make Where You Are Your Home: Hatsuye Egami’s Migration and Writings in Japanese American Concentration Camps. Part III Diasporic Imaginings of Homemaking and Community Building 9. Where Do We Belong? Glocal Blackness and The Family Unit in Diasporic African Literatures. 10. “London Is the Place for Me”: Language, Community Building, and Homemaking in Sam Selvon’s Moses Trilogy. 11. Longing for Dissonance: Writing Community in Loida Maritza Pérez’s Geographies of Home. Part IV Transnational Return: Trajectories of Ancestral Homeland Narratives 12. Coming to Terms with the Hyphen: The Homecoming of a ""Cultural Go-Between"" in Andrew X. Pham's Catfish and Mandala. 13. Homing Laptop: Return to Reset via Chinese TV Series 14. A Tale of Home and Rupture: Friendship, Race, and Ignorance in Albert Wendt’s Sons for the Return Home. Conclusion 15. Mapping the Multidisciplinary Study of Home and Ancestral Homeland. Selected Bibliography Index"

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Jean Amato is Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, working in Chinese and English, her research centers on ancestral home/homeland in twentieth-century Chinese, Diasporic, and Chinese American Literature and Film. Co-editor of Home and Homeland in Asian Diaspora: Transnational Reflections in Art, Literature, and Film (2024), she is co-editing two interdisciplinary anthologies on homeland and diaspora studies and publishes extensively on this topic. Kyunghee Pyun is Professor of art history at the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, focusing on visual culture, the history of art collecting, and the intersectionality of technology and art. She co-edited Fashion, Identity, Power in Modern Asia (2018); Interpreting Modernism in Korean Art (2021); American Art from Asia (2022); Expanding the Parameters of Feminist Artivism (2022); Dress History of Korea (2023); and Home and Homeland in Asian Diaspora: Transnational Reflections in Art, Literature, and Film (2024).

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