Where I have never been : migration, melancholia, and memory in Asian American narratives of return

Where I have never been : migration, melancholia, and memory in Asian American narratives of return / Patricia P. Chu.

"In researching accounts of diasporic Chinese offspring who returned to their parents' ancestral country, author Patricia Chu learned that she was not alone in the experience of growing up in America with an abstract affinity to an ancestral homeland and community. The bittersweet emotions...

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Main Author: Chu, Patricia P. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2019.
Series:Asian American history & culture
Subjects:
1900-2099
American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism.
Asian Americans in literature.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Homeland in literature.
Return in literature.
Melancholy in literature.
Memory in literature.
Asian Americans > Ethnic identity.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > Asian American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
American literature
American literature > Asian American authors
Asian Americans > Ethnic identity
Asian Americans in literature
Emigration and immigration in literature
Homeland in literature
Melancholy in literature
Memory in literature
Return in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • "Ears Attuned to Two Cultures": Reconciling Accounts in Cultural Curiosity
  • Transpacific Echos in the Family Memoir: Sojourns and Returns in Lisa See's On Gold Mountain
  • "The One Who Mediates": Mimicry, Melancholia, and Countermemory in The Concubine's Children
  • Working Through Diasporic Melancholia: Winberg and May-lee Chai's The Girl From Purple Mountain
  • "A Being ... from a Different World": Yung Wing and the Making of a Global Subjectivity
  • "To Bring the Dead to Life": Countermemories in Minatoya's Stangeness of Beauty and Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being
  • Coda.

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