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Unstable Homes in Asian Diasporic Literature

Mohammad A. Quayum, Chingyen Yang Mayer

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This book redefines “homes,” real and imagined, in Asian diasporic literature. It explores the emotional journey of migration, exile, and uprootedness, mourning the loss of “homes” while celebrating the resilience and adaptability that lead to the creation of new ones.

This is the first book-length study that destabilises and redefines the concepts of “homes,” real and imagined, in Southeast Asian, South Asian, and East Asian…
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This is the first book-length study that destabilises and redefines the concepts of “homes,” real and imagined, in Southeast Asian, South Asian, and East Asian diasporic literature. The “homes” constructed, dismantled, and reconstructed in the selected Asian diasporic literary texts are diverse and reflect the evolving cultural, socio-economic, and political dynamics of contemporary global realities. The chapters form a unified thematic thread, even as the narratives of “homes” disavow unities of space, time, subjectivity, and identity. The book is an indispensable guide to Asian Diaspora Studies, Asian and Asian-American Studies, Multicultural Literature Studies, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, and Globalisation Studies, making it essential reading for scholars, students, and researchers in these fields.

The collection explores the emotional journey of transnational voluntary and involuntary migration, exile, uprootedness, dislocation, fragmentation, mobility, and multiplicity. It mourns the loss of “homes” while celebrating the resilience and adaptability that lead to the creation of new “homes” in Southeast Asian, South Asian, and East Asian diasporic spaces.

Dr Mohammad A. Quayum is a Professor of English at Flinders University, South Australia. He has previously taught at universities in Australia, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore and the US. Author, editor and translator of over forty books, he has published numerous journal articles and book chapters in American, Bangla and Asian Anglophone literature. He is the founding editor-in-chief of Asiatic: An International Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes and former editor of World Literature Written in English (currently known as the Journal of Postcolonial Writing).

Dr Chingyen Yang Mayer is an Associate Professor of English at Siena College in Loudonville, NY, USA. She teaches American literature, Asian American literature, postcolonial and multicultural literature. She has published book chapters and peer-reviewed essays in both Chinese and English.

Chingyen Yang Mayer, Sanghamitra Dalal, Kim Cheng Boey, Shirley Lim, Pauline Newton, Bandana Chakrabarty, Wenxin Li, Binbin Fu, Umme Salma, Chitra Thrivikraman Nair, Santosh Gupta, Su-ching Huang, Lekha Roy, Mohammad A. Quayum

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-0364-6878-X
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-6878-1

Subject Codes:

  • BIC: D, DSBH5, JFSL1
  • BISAC: LIT008000, LIT004030, LIT020000, SOC008000, SOC043000, SOC007000
  • THEMA: D, DSBH5, JBSL1
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