Ien Ang

On Not Speaking Chinese (eBook, PDF)

Living Between Asia and the West

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Produktbeschreibung

Leading cultural thinker Ien Ang engages with urgent questions of identity in an age of globalization and diaspora. Ang reflects upon tensions between Asia' and the West' at a national and global level, and considers the disparate meanings of Chineseness' in the contemporary world. 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 neighbors, 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 theorizing not of difference' but of togetherness' in contemporary societies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134512935
• Artikelnr.: 38247836

Autorenporträt

Ien Ang is Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the Institute for Cultural Studies Research at the University of Western Sydney, Nepean. She is the author of a number of books, including Watching Dallas (1985), Desperately Seeking the Audience (1991) and Living Room Wars (1995)

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments. Introduction: Between Asia and the West Beyond
Asia: Deconstructing Diaspora 1. On Not Speaking Chinese - Postmodern
Ethnicity and the Politics of Diaspora 2. Can One Say No to the
Chineseness? - Pushing the Limits of Diasporic Paradigm 3. Indonesia on My
Mind - Diaspora, Internet and the Struggle for Hybridity 4. Undoing
Diaspora - Questioning Global Chineseness Beyond the West: Negotiating
Multiculturalism 5. Multiculturalism in Crisis - The New Politics of Race
and National Identity in Australia 6. Asians and Australians - A
Contradiction in Terms? 7. Racial/Spatial Anxeity - 'Asia' in the
Psycho-Geography of Australian Whiteness 8. The Curse of the Smile -
Ambivalence and the Asian Woman in Multicultural Australia 9. Identity
Blues - Rescuing Cosmopolitanism in the Era of Globalization Beyond
Identity 10. Local/Global Negotiations - Doing Cultural Studies at the
Crossroads 11. I'm a Feminist but... - 'Other Women' and Postnational
Identities 12. Conclusion: Together in Difference - The Uses and Abuses of
Hybridity Notes. Bibliography. Index.