On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the WestPsychology Press, 2001 - 230 pagini In this major new book, leading cultural thinker Ien Ang engages with urgent questions of identity in an age of globalisation and diaspora. The starting point for Ang's discussion is the experience of visiting Taiwan. Ang, a person of Chinese descent, born in Indonesia and raised in the Netherlands, found herself "faced with an almost insurmountable difficulty" - surrounded by people who expected her to speak to them in Chinese. She writes: "It was the beginning of an almost decade-long engagement with the predicaments of `Chineseness' in diaspora. In Taiwan I was different because I couldn't speak Chinese; in the West I was different because I looked Chinese". From this autobiographical beginning, Ang goes on to reflect upon tensions between `Asia' and `the West' at a national and global level, and to consider the disparate meanings of `Chineseness' in the contemporary world. She offers a critique of the increasingly aggressive construction of a global Chineseness, and challenges Western tendencies to equate `Chinese' with `Asian' identity. Ang then turns to `the West', exploring the paradox of Australia's identity as a `Western' country in the Asian region, and tracing Australia's uneasy relationship with its Asian neighbours, from the White Australia policy to contemporary multicultural society. Finally, Ang draws together her discussion of `Asia' and `the West' to consider the social and intellectual space of the `in-between', arguing for a theorising not of `difference' but of `togetherness' in contemporary societies. |
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Pagina vii
... politics of identity and difference has been all the rage in the 1990s . All over the world , people have become increasingly assertive in claiming and declaring ' who they are ' . This book is perhaps a symptom of this trend , but it ...
... politics of identity and difference has been all the rage in the 1990s . All over the world , people have become increasingly assertive in claiming and declaring ' who they are ' . This book is perhaps a symptom of this trend , but it ...
Pagina viii
... politics - including that of nations - can take strange turns ! To a certain extent then , any identity is always mistaken , and this may be taken as the overall motto of this book . My personal biographical trajectory compels me to ...
... politics - including that of nations - can take strange turns ! To a certain extent then , any identity is always mistaken , and this may be taken as the overall motto of this book . My personal biographical trajectory compels me to ...
Pagina 2
... politics of hybridity never moves beyond the ephemeral and the contingent , failing to produce stable commitment to a political cause , a sustained politics of radical structural change . In a different context , Ella Shohat ( 1992 ) ...
... politics of hybridity never moves beyond the ephemeral and the contingent , failing to produce stable commitment to a political cause , a sustained politics of radical structural change . In a different context , Ella Shohat ( 1992 ) ...
Pagina 3
... political choice and taking a political position in a necessarily contingent political field is like , what sort of " politics " it adds up to ? ' ( 1996f : 244 ) . ' Hybridity ' captures in a shorthand fashion the complexities and ...
... political choice and taking a political position in a necessarily contingent political field is like , what sort of " politics " it adds up to ? ' ( 1996f : 244 ) . ' Hybridity ' captures in a shorthand fashion the complexities and ...
Pagina 6
... political powers - that - be were destabilized - the most dramatic of which was the forced resignation of President Suharto in Indonesia in May 1998 after months of student protests and mass rioting . The ' Asian meltdown ' led many ...
... political powers - that - be were destabilized - the most dramatic of which was the forced resignation of President Suharto in Indonesia in May 1998 after months of student protests and mass rioting . The ' Asian meltdown ' led many ...
Cuprins
On not speaking Chinese diasporic identifications and postmodern ethnicity | 21 |
Can one say no to Chineseness? Pushing the limits of the diasporic paradigm | 37 |
Indonesia on my mind diaspora the Internet and the struggle for hybridity | 52 |
Undoing diaspora questioning global Chineseness in the era of globalization | 75 |
Beyond the West negotiating multiculturalism | 93 |
Multiculturalism in crisis the new politics of race and national identity in Australia | 95 |
Asians in Australia a contradiction in terms? | 112 |
Racialspatial anxiety Asia in the psychogeography of Australian whiteness | 126 |
Identity blues rescuing cosmopolitanism in the era of globalization | 150 |
Beyond identity living hybridities | 161 |
Localglobal negotiations doing cultural studies at the crossroads | 163 |
Im a feminist but other women and postnational identities | 177 |
Conclusion togetherindifference the uses and abuses of hybridity | 193 |
Notes | 202 |
Bibliography | 211 |
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The curse of the smile ambivalence and the Asian woman in Australian multiculturalism | 138 |
Alte ediții - Afișează-le pe toate
On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West Ien Ang Nu există previzualizare disponibilă - 2001 |
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