Up until now, 'migration literature' has primarily been defined as 'texts written by migrant authors', a definition that has been discussed, criticised, and even rejected by critics and authors alike. Very rarely has 'migration literature' been understood as 'literature on the t…
Introduction: pluralism, transition, and the Anglophone -- Multiracial clans in colorful Malaya: pluralism, intimacy, and transition -- So that the sparks that fly will fly in all directions: pluralism and revolution in the Philippines -- Liberal tolerance and Asian migrancy: mi…
"Since the early 1990s, Asian American studies scholars have often read migrant texts as diasporic, and have seen the Asian migrant as caught between a mythical homeland and an imperial host country. Transitive Cultures seeks to shift from diaspora as a framework that reinstitut…
Transitive Cultures offers a new perspective on transpacific Anglophone literature, revealing how these chameleonic writers enact a variety of hybrid, transnational identities and intimacies. Examining texts from Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Canada, and the United State…
"In the post-Cold War, post-9/11 era, the immigrant experience has changed dramatically. Despite the recent successes of immigrant and world literatures, there has been little scholarship on how the hardships of immigration are conveyed in immigrant narratives. Translating Pain …
Elleke Boehmer's work on the crucial intersections between independence, nationalism and gender has already proved canonical in the field. This book combines her keynote essays on the mother figure and the postcolonial nation, with incisive new work on male autobiography, "daugh…
Examining identity in relation to globalization and migration, this book uses narratives and memoirs from contemporary authors who have lived 'in-between' two or more languages. It explores the human desire to find one's 'own place' in new cultural contexts, and looks at the rol…
This book answers recent calls in criticism and theory to examine the influence of genre on contemporary Asian American literary production. Drawing on cultural theories of representation, social theories of identity, and poststructuralist genre theory, this study shows how popu…
The twentieth century has witnessed the rise of a large population of postcolonial intellectual migrants "willingly" arriving from formerly colonized countries into the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada to pursue intellectual goals. Embedded in this movement from the…
The highly-anticipated first English-language edition of the monumental critical anthology of writings from the golden age of the Italian disapora in America is now available. To appreciate the life of the Italian immigrant enclave from the great heart of the Italian migration t…
The figure of the migrant has been celebrated by some as an icon of postmodernity, an emblematic figure in a world increasingly characterized by transnationalism, globalization and mass migrations. Kral takes issue with this view of the migrant experience through in-depth analys…
The figure of the migrant has been celebrated by some as an icon of postmodernity, an emblematic figure in a world increasingly characterized by transnationalism, globalization and mass migrations. Fraṅoise Kr̀l takes issue with this view of the migrant experience, addressing the…
"The figure of the migrant has been celebrated by some as an icon of postmodernity, an emblematic figure in a world increasingly characterized by transnationalism, globalization and mass migrations. Francoise Kral takes issue with this view of the migrant experience, addressing …
