On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the WestRoutledge, 8 iul. 2005 - 240 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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... longer , if there ever were , simple lines to be drawn between goodies and baddies . This doesn't mean that there are no hard political choices to be made , but , he asks , ' isn't the ubiquitous , the soul - searing , lesson of our ...
... longer , if there ever were , simple lines to be drawn between goodies and baddies . This doesn't mean that there are no hard political choices to be made , but , he asks , ' isn't the ubiquitous , the soul - searing , lesson of our ...
Pagina 5
... longer linked exclusively to lamentable Third World connotations . One important reason for this has been the highly contested , spectacular rise of East and South - East Asian ' dragons ' and ' tigers ' in the global economy in the ...
... longer linked exclusively to lamentable Third World connotations . One important reason for this has been the highly contested , spectacular rise of East and South - East Asian ' dragons ' and ' tigers ' in the global economy in the ...
Pagina 6
... longer the deferential followers of the West , but have created alternative ( and arguably , for some , superior ) Asian styles of modernity . In the West , the mood was mirrored in the publication of Harvard Professor Samuel ...
... longer the deferential followers of the West , but have created alternative ( and arguably , for some , superior ) Asian styles of modernity . In the West , the mood was mirrored in the publication of Harvard Professor Samuel ...
Pagina 7
... longer be represented unproblematically as primitives or exotics - two versions of the absolute Other - by their Western counterparts . They may perhaps be called ' recalcitrant ' ( indicating at most the irritation felt by the older ...
... longer be represented unproblematically as primitives or exotics - two versions of the absolute Other - by their Western counterparts . They may perhaps be called ' recalcitrant ' ( indicating at most the irritation felt by the older ...
Pagina 8
... longer an anomaly but a regular presence in this Western country , a presence to be reckoned with ( as in some other parts in the Western world such as California , but certainly not in Europe ) . This has had a tremendous impact on my ...
... longer an anomaly but a regular presence in this Western country , a presence to be reckoned with ( as in some other parts in the Western world such as California , but certainly not in Europe ) . This has had a tremendous impact on my ...
Cuprins
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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 |
Index | 226 |
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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