Culture, Identity, Commodity: Diasporic Chinese Literatures in English
- ISBN-10
- 0773573275
- ISBN-13
- 9780773573277
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-10-05
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
- Authors
- Kam Louie, Tseen Khoo
Description
Established and emerging scholars offer timely discussions of "diasporic Chinese studies," drawing on transnational, postcolonial, globalisation, and racialisation theories. The collection examines what is at stake in the consideration of diasporic literatures and the connections and fissures emerging in these new critical terrains.
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- 2005
- 313 pages
- Paperback
- McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
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- 2005-07-01
- 328 pages
- Ebook
- Hong Kong University Press
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