While many of us may strive to locate a sense of identity and belonging expressed via a home or ancestral homeland; today, however, this connection is no longer, if it ever was, a straightforward identification. This collection aims at mapping narratives or artwork of home/homeland that present shared, private, multifaceted, and often contested experiences of place, especially in the context of today’s migrations and upheavals, along with alarming degrees of increased nativism, racism, and anti-Asian violence. This volume includes papers by artists, filmmakers, and comparative scholars from diverse disciplines of literature, cinema, art history, cultural studies, and gender studies. Our goal is to help literary and art historian scholars in Asian diaspora studies, better decolonize and open up traditional research methodologies, curricula, and pedagogies.
Author(s): Kyunghee Pyun (editor), Jean Amato (editor)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
Year: 2024
Language: English
Pages: 256
Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Interdisciplinary Expressions of Home and the Ancestral Homeland in Asian Diaspora
Introduction
Homes and Ancestral Homelands
Asian Diasporas: “I Call into Question Your Naming of Me. I Trust Your Sight No More” (Kingston 70)
The Chapters
Part I: Home is Where You Are—Reimagining Homescapes and Identities
Part II: Multifaceted Geographies and Affiliations—Renegotiating Notions of Home and Identity
Part III: Navigating Public History and Private Memories of Home/Land—Space, Sexuality, and Gender Roles
Part IV: Unpacking Hierarchies of Affiliation and Belonging Involved in a “Return” Journey to an Ancestral Homeland
Works Cited
Part I: Home Is Where You Are: Reimagining Homescapes and Identities
Chapter 2: Bao and Turning Red: Eating Chinese in Bloody Toronto
Works Cited
Chapter 3: Representation of Comfort Women in Chang-rae Lee’s A Gesture Life and Christina Park’s The Homes We Build on Ashes
Works Cited
Chapter 4: Belonging Through Faith: Promised Home/Land in Min Jin Lee’s Free Food for Millionaires
Works Cited
Part II: Multifaceted Geographies and Affiliations: Renegotiating Notions of Home and Identity
Chapter 5: Un/homing in an Indigenous Land: Chinese and the Indigenous in Ling Zhang’s “Toward the North”
Works Cited
Chapter 6: Homeland Films Without Homeland: Examining Homeland in Soleen Yusef’s Haus ohne Dach [House Without Roof] (2016)
Works Cited
Chapter 7: A Sri Lankan Finding and Defining Home in Australia: Sunil Govinnage’s Writings
Works Cited
Chapter 8: East Is East (1997) as a Black Comedy of Asian Diasporic Homemaking in 1970s Britain
Works Cited
Part III: Navigating Public History and Private Memories of Home/Land: Space, Sexuality, and Gender Roles
Chapter 9: Home and Reformed Identities: A Study of Deepa Mehta’s Queer Diasporic Film Fire
Works Cited
Chapter 10: Indian Womanhood as the Site of Home in Lakshmi Persaud’s Sastra
Works Cited
Chapter 11: “She Who Is Limitless, Without Borders”: “The Domain of Intimacy” in Lahiri’s The Namesake
Works Cited
Part IV: Unpacking Hierarchies of Affiliation and Belonging Involved in a “Return” Journey to an Ancestral Homeland
Chapter 12: NowHere and NoWhere: There’s No Place Like Home in Beth Yahp’s Eat First, Talk Later
Works Cited
Chapter 13: Transkoreaning: Decolonizing Adopted Identity Through Artistic Practices and a Return to Home
Works Cited
Selected Bibliography
Index