A pioneering study of literary works by Chinese authors from Canada, the United States, and Australia.
From David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly to Evelyn Lau's Diary of a Runaway to Fred Wah's poetry, diasporic Chinese literature in English is reaching wider audiences. The interdisciplinary essays in Culture, Identity, Commodity provide close textual readings and general theoretical frameworks for a range of textual productions - novels, autobiographies, plays, and Chinese cooking shows - that address this dynamic field.
Established and emerging scholars offer timely discussions of "diasporic Chinese studies," drawing on transnational, postcolonial, globalisation, and racialisation theories. The collection examines what is at stake in the consideration of diasporic literatures and the connections and fissures emerging in these new critical terrains.
Contributors include Guy Beauregard (National Tsing Hua U, Taiwan), Leslie Bow (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Lily Cho (University of Western Ontario), Don Goellnicht (McMaster University), Jodi Kim (University of California), David Leiwelli (University of Oregon), Anita Mannur (Wesleyan University), Robyn Morris (University of Wollongong), Wenche Ommundsen (Deakin University, Australia), Peta Stephenson (University of Melbourne), Rita Wong (poet and PhD candidate, Simon Fraser University).