Search Results - "Asian diaspora"
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Revisiting South Asian diaspora literature
Published 2017“…Critically looks into the current trends in South Asian diaspora literature and provides an overview of the articles published in the issue.…”
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The Portrayal of Chinese Diaspora in Selected Novels by Amy Tan
Published 2004Subjects: “…Asian diaspora…”
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Multiculturalism and feminist concerns in South Asian diaspora novels
Published 2014“…The importance of multiculturalism within the parameters of feministic theory has become a new element for South Asian diaspora writers. They are keenly interested in debating the issues of cultural conflicts, differences, identity, assimilation, integration, negation, oppression, sex discrimination and gender inequality in their works. …”
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Contemporary South Asian American women's fiction: the "difference"
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Feeling Asian Together: Coping with #COVIDRacism on Subtle Asian Traits
Published 2020“…In this article, we reflect on our experiences as East Asian diaspora members on SAT and share our observations of meaning-making, identity-making, and community-making as East Asians collectively coping with COVID-19 aggression between January and May 2020.…”
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Hybridity in Bapsi Sidhwa’s an American Brat
Published 2016“…As immigrant fiction continues to emerge from the South Asian diaspora across the globe, theories of gender and identity that mostly treat such novels as bildungsromans are often used to bring to light the plight of literary characters caught between two different cultures. …”
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Hybridity in Bapsi Sidhwa's an American Brat
Published 2016“…As immigrant fiction continues to emerge from the South Asian diaspora across the globe, theories of gender and identity that mostly treat such novels as bildungsromans are often used to bring to light the plight of literary characters caught between two different cultures. …”
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Hybridity in Bapsi Sidhwa’s an American Brat
Published 2016“…As immigrant fiction continues to emerge from the South Asian diaspora across the globe, theories of gender and identity that mostly treat such novels as bildungsromans are often used to bring to light the plight of literary characters caught between two different cultures. …”
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Interpolating South Asian Transnational Heritage: Allegory In South Asian Diasporic Metropolitan Young Adult Fiction
Published 2016“…This paper investigates a selection of young adult fiction written by authors of the South Asian diaspora to determine whether the use of allegory in the form of cultural myths and folklore drawn from an ancestral cultural repertoire allows these texts to insert themselves into and dismantle the hegemony of metropolitan Eurocentricism in the consciousness of the diasporic South Asian reader. …”
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Hybridity in Bapsi Sidhwa's an American Brat and H.M. Naqvi's home boy
Published 2016“…As immigrant fiction continues to emerge from the South Asian diaspora across the globe, theories of gender and identity that mostly treat such novels as Bildungsromans are often used to bring to light the plight of literary characters caught between two different cultures. …”
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Buddhist funeral cultures of Southeast Asia and China
Published 2012“…The studies are based on long-term fieldwork and covering material from Theravada Buddhism in Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and various regions of Chinese Buddhism, both on the mainland and in the Southeast Asian diasporas. Topics such as bad death, the feeding of ghosts, pollution through death, and the ritual regeneration of life show how Buddhist cultures deal with death as a universal phenomenon of human culture.…”
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Internalized homophobia and rooted cosmopolitan identity in selected contemporary Indian diasporic fiction
Published 2021“…Therefore, future research could focus on fiction of other Asian diasporas who are also known for deep familial roots such as the Chinese, Koreans, or Japanese to determine the effects of internalized homophobia on the cosmopolitan values of the LGBTQ characters of Eastern Asian descent within a migrant background.…”
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