Diaspora: Negotiating Asian Australia

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DIASPORA:
NEGOTIATING ASIAN AUSTRALIA
Edited by Helen Gilbert, Tseen Khoo, and Jacqueline Lo

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This diverse volume focuses on work by and about Asian-Australians, bringing together fresh and challenging essays on literature, film, theatre, the visual arts, and cultural history. Broad themes include racial and cultural politics, hybridity, diasporic identities, desire and sexuality, transnationalism. Also included are poems, a theatre script, short fiction, and visual images by Asian-Australian creative writers and artists. The book as a whole emphasises the urgency of reinscribing Asian histories into Australian cultural landscapes as well as mapping contemporary expressions of the Asian diaspora in John Howard's post-multicultural Australia.

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Contents include a critical introduction, seventeen essays, and various creative works. VIEW FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS

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ARTICLE	AUTHOR(S)
Introduction: New formations in Asian-Australian cultural politics	Jacqueline Lo, Tseen Khoo, & Helen Gilbert
ECONOMIES OF CULTURE
'Cricket with a plot': Nationalism, cricket, and diasporic identities	Suvendrini Perera
The transcultural dilemma: Asian Australian Artists in the Asian debate	Melissa Chiu
Of training, tokenism, and productive misinterpretation: Reflections on the After China project	Peter Copeman and Rebecca Scollen
The making of an 'Australian' self in Simone Lazaroo's The World Waiting To Be Made	Dorothy Wang TOP of PAGE
HYBRIDITY AND RACIAL POLITICS
The poetics of cultural theory: On hybridity and the new hierarchies	Dean Chan
Remembering Chinese	Greg Leong
'Possible only on paper?': Hybridity as parody in Brian Castro's Drift	Miriam Lo TOP of PAGE
CREATIVE ARTS REVIEW
Arrangements	Andy Quan
Extract from Playing Madame Mao	Lau Siew Mei
Conversations with Charlie	Binh Duy Ta
Line drawing of an Australian grandmother	Miriam Wei Wei Lo
Guddi	Satendra Nandan
Beloved	Merlinda Bobis
Mona Lisa	Hou Leong TOP of PAGE
BEYOND STEREOTYPES
Wild Cathay boys: Chinese bushrangers in Australian history and literature	Rodney Noonan
'Historical drifters': Self-representations of Chinese late-comers in Australia	Shen Yuan-fang
Comic refuge(e): The comic persona of Hung Le	Barbara Joseph
Your worst nightmare: Hybridised demonology in Asian-Australian women's writing	Shirley Tucker TOP of PAGE
DESIRE AND THE 'ASIAN' BODY
Sexual identity and cultural identity: A crash course	Tony Ayres
Selling Sexotica: Oriental grunge and suburbia in Lillian Ng's Swallowing Clouds	Tseen Khoo
Hysteria and the hybrid body in Laleen Jayamanne's A Song of Ceylon	Priyadarshini Vigneswaran
'That's what rice queens study!': White gay desire and representing Asian homosexualities	Peter Jackson TOP of PAGE
POST-ETHNICITY AND COSMOPOLITICS
Asian-Australian cinema, Asian-Australian modernity	Audrey Yue
Folding Chinese boxes: Asian exoticism in Australia	Olivia Khoo TOP of PAGE
REVIEWS
Andrew G Bonnell, David Carter, Bill Harley, Bryan Jamieson, Hugh Martin, Felicity Meakins, Clive Moore, John Rickard, Winsome Roberts, Ingrid Woodrow, Kominos Zervos TOP of PAGE

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