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In this book, Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity, Sheng-mei Ma analyzes Asian, Asian diaspora, and Orientalist discourse and probes into the conjoinedness of West and East and modernity's illusions. Drawing from Anglo-American, Asian American, and Asian literature, as well a…
Drawing from Anglo-American, Asian American, and Asian literature as well as J-horror and manga, Chinese cinema and Internet, and the Korean Wave, Sheng-mei Ma's Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity probes into the conjoinedness of West and East, of modernity's illusion and no…
In this book, Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity, Sheng-mei Ma analyzes Asian, Asian diaspora, and Orientalist discourse and probes into the conjoinedness of West and East and modernity's illusions. Drawing from Anglo-American, Asian American, and Asian literature, as well a…
In this book, Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity, Sheng-mei Ma analyzes Asian, Asian diaspora, and Orientalist discourse and probes into the conjoinedness of West and East and modernity's illusions. Drawing from Anglo-American, Asian American, and Asian literature, as well a…
Explores the impact of nostalgia on the construction of individual and collective identity for diasporic South-Asians in the UK and US. It argues that in the postcolonial context the affect produced by this nostalgia can have radical potential as a form of resistance.
Ḥusayn's Hindu defenders / Tryna Lyons -- An ethnographic exploration of Muharram(s) in Pune, Maharashtra / Deepra Dandekar -- Visual language of piety and power: Ta'ziahs and temples in the western Deccan / Pushkar Sohoni -- The idea of religion and the criminalization of Muhar…
"This book analyses engagements with non-Shia practices of Muḥarram celebrations in the past and present, in South Asia and within a larger diaspora. Breaking new ground by bringing together a variety of regional perspectives (Bengal, the Deccan, Pakistan, Trinidad and Tobago, a…
"This book analyses engagements with non-Shia practices of Muḥarram celebrations in the past and present, in South Asia and within a larger diaspora. Breaking new ground by bringing together a variety of regional perspectives (Bengal, the Deccan, Pakistan, Trinidad and Tobago, a…
Development Potential of Asian Diasporas -- Diaspora, Homeland, and Development -- Gender, Generation and Identities -- Soft Power, Mobilization and Development -- Media, Culture and Representations. "This handbook offers an analysis of Asian diaspora and development and explor…
Development Potential of Asian Diasporas -- Diaspora, Homeland, and Development -- Gender, Generation and Identities -- Soft Power, Mobilization and Development -- Media, Culture and Representations. "This handbook offers an analysis of Asian diaspora and development and explor…
"This handbook offers an analysis of Asian diaspora and development and explores the role immigrants living within diasporic and transnational communities play in the development of their host countries and their homeland ... Presenting cutting-edge research on several dimension…
"This handbook offers an analysis of Asian diaspora and development and explores the role immigrants living within diasporic and transnational communities play in the development of their host countries and their homeland ... Presenting cutting-edge research on several dimension…
This handbook offers an analysis of Asian diaspora and development, and explores the role that immigrants living within diasporic and transnational communities play in the development of their host countries and their homeland. Bringing together an array of interdisciplinary sch…
A timely exploration of how odor seeps into structural inequality Our sense of smell is a uniquely visceral-and personal-form of experience. As Hsuan L. Hsu points out, smell has long been spurned by Western aesthetics as a lesser sense for its qualities of subjectivity, volatil…
A timely exploration of how odor seeps into structural inequality Our sense of smell is a uniquely visceral-and personal-form of experience. As Hsuan L. Hsu points out, smell has long been spurned by Western aesthetics as a lesser sense for its qualities of subjectivity, volatil…
