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Contents Acknowledgements Introduction The Culture of Asian Diasporas: Integrating/Interrogatin g (Im)migration, Habitus, Textuality Robbie B. H. Goh Chapter 1 The Uncertain Configurations o f a Politics of Location: The Intersection of Postcolonial, Feminist, and Nationalis t Discourses in Understanding Chinese Diasporic Communitie s Ann Brooks Chapter 2 Diaspora and Violence: Cultural/Spatial Production, Abjection , and Exchang e Robbie B. H. Goh Chapter 3 Theorizing Diasporas: Three Types of Consciousnes s Regina Lee vi Contents Chapter 4 7 7 Cultural Citizenship in Diaspora: A Study of Chinese Australia Wenche Ommundsen Chapter 5 9 5 Mimics without Menace: Interrogating Hybridity in Bharati Mukherjee's Fictio n Rebecca Sultana Chapter 6 10 7 The Shadow of Diasporic (Auto)Biography: The Traveling-Self in Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family Carol E. Leon Chapter 7 11 7 Translating Indian Culture from Diaspor a Alessandro Monti and Rajeshwar Mittapalli Chapter 8 13 1 Claiming Diaspora in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Joss & Gold Jeffrey F. L. Partridge Chapter 9 14 9 Writing the Chinese and Southeast Asian Diasporas in Russell Leong's Phoenix Eyes Walter S. H. Lim Chapter 10 16 1 Diasporic Communities and Identity Politics: Containing the Political Ryan Bishop and John Phillips Notes 17 7 References 18 5 Contributors 19 9 Index 203฀ ...

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