East-West Montage: Reflections on Asian Bodies in DiasporaUniversity of Hawaii Press, 6 nov. 2007 - 328 pagini "East-West Montage possesses a unique vision that promises to push discussions of globalization, cultural production, ethnic identity, and bodily metaphors in powerful new directions. Ma is to be praised for his sound scholarship and innovative interpretations. Indeed where others specialize in either the collection of details or the unpacking of text, Ma weaves a strong analytic exegesis rooted in thorough research." —Richard King, Washington State University |
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... existence on the borderland between water and land—we need to look at a diasporic archetype such as Lot's nameless wife in Genesis, a backon ward glance that is a crosscut to the Judaic-Christian West. xvi Establishing Shots ✯
... look back is necessitated, indeed preordained, by nostalgia, a desire to repossess in one's pupils and mind's eye the home that is lost, the home that is being annihilated by God's wrath. sees Sodom is condemned and marked for ...
... look back in mourning. A dubious sign, the phallic pillar congeals countless drops of “womanly” tears. Lot's and even God's hidden desire to look back themselves is projected onto the ambiguity of female transgression. After Lot and his ...
... look back to assemble an Asian American identity against the backdrop of Asian and Asian immigrant discourse. Such backward glancing is but human, as all cultural expressions concern, to some extent, the past, except perhaps prophesy ...
... look like themselves. Despite dubious entanglements with an ancestral past, the academic discipline of Asian American studies places the focus on the here and now, but in recent years this unspoken rule has been challenged by the rise ...
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Intercut on Asian Penis | 37 |
Intercut on Asian Dubbing | 77 |
Intercut on the Korean Wave | 111 |
Intercut on Body Oriental | 141 |
Intercut on Asian Magic | 187 |
Intercut on Asian Deceased | 215 |
Finis | 255 |
Notes | 257 |
Bibliography | 275 |
Index | 295 |
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