基本説明
Explores how memories are used to re-establish a sense of belonging, analyzing the relationships between migrants' adjustment, assimilation and re-membering home.
Full Description
This book explores how memories are used to re-establish a sense of belonging, analyzing the relationships between migrants' adjustment, assimilation and re-membering home. It considers memories as social expressions as well as the tensions and conflicts in representing and renegotiating memories in literature and cinema.
Contents
Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: Disaporic Memories and Identities: A.P.Davidson& K.E.Kuah-Pearce The Play of Identity, Memory and Belonging: Chinese Migrants in Sydney: A.P.Davidson Memories and Identity Anxieties of Chinese Transmigrants in Australia: D.Ip Chinese Collective Memories in Sydney: W.Lalich Generational Identities Through Time: Identities and Homelands of the ABCs: L.Ngan Moving Through Memory: Chinese Migration to New Zealand in the 1990s: A.P.Davidson& R.Dei Collectives Memories as Cultural Capital: From Chinese Diaspora to Emigrant Hometowns: K.E.Kuah-Pearce Politics, Commerce, and Construction of Chinese "Otherness" in Korea: Open Port Period (1876-1910): S.Choi Imagination, Memory and Misunderstanding: The Chinese in Japan and Japanese Perceptions of China: J.Clammer Memories, Belonging and Home-making: Chinese Migrants in Germany: M.W.H. Leung A Century of Not Belonging - The Chinese in South Africa: D.Accone& K.L.Harris Look Who's Talking: Migration Narratives and Identity Construction: A.L.Wai-sum In Love with Music: Memory, Identity, and Music in Hong Kong's Diasporic Films: E.M.K.Cheung Conclusion: Through the Diasporic Looking-glass: A.P.Davidson Index
