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Alternative title:
Locating Asian Australian Cultures
Issue Details:
First known date:
2006...
vol.
27
no.
1-2
February
2006
of
Journal of Intercultural Studies
est. 1980-
Journal of Intercultural Studies
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* Contents derived from the 2006 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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The Aesthetics of Simplicity: Yang's Sadness and the Melancholic Community,
single work
criticism
(p. 83-100)This essay makes use of the work of semioticians such as Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag to discuss William Yang's Sadness (1996). Caluya chooses not to interpret Sadness as an autobiography. He prefers to mobilise the realism of photographic and anecdotal detail in what he terms 'an aesthetics of simplicity', ultimately reframing the work through tropes of loss and melancholia and considering how it intervenes 'in the ethics and politics of grief as an art work' (paraphrased from author's abstract).
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'No Place Like Home' : The Ambivalent Rhetoric of Hospitality in the Work of Simone Lazaroo, Arlene Chai, and Hsu-Ming Teo,
single work
criticism
(p. 117-132)This essay addresses the 'neither here nor there' rhetoric of not belonging in Anglophone Chinese Australian literature.
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'Growing up an Australian' : Renegotiating Mateship, Masculinity and 'Australianness' in Hsu-Ming Teo's Behind the Moon,
single work
criticism
(p. 151-166)This essay focuses on the way in which the films Gallipoli (1981) and The Wizard of Oz (1939) are deployed in the novel, Behind the Moon (2005). Morris suggests that such a reading points to the 'collision between discourses of masculinity, mateship, nationhood and race' thereby providing a 'timely intervention in the debate about national identity'.
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'Flexible Citizenship' : Strategic Chinese Identities in Asian Australian Literature,
single work
criticism
(p. 213-227)
Focusing on Ouyang Yu's The Eastern Slope Chronicle, this essay explores 'the extent to which the concept of 'Asian Australian' reflects Asian and Australian attitudes towards cultural and political citizenship. It argues that Asian Australian cultural production is not only symptomatic of deep ambivalences surrounding cultural and political citizenship, but that it is also subject to constant re-negotiation with historical and prevailing attitudes about race and culture' (author's abstract).
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