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"By bringing queer theory to bear on ideas of diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath produces both a more compelling queer theory and a more nuanced understanding of diaspora. Focusing on queer female diasporic subjectivity, Gopinath develops a theory of diaspora apart from the logic of blood, authenticity, and patrilineal descent that she argues invariably forms the core of conventional formulations. She examines South Asian diasporic literature, film, and music in order to suggest alternative ways of conceptualizing community and collectivity across disparate geographic locations. Her agile readings challenge nationalist ideologies by bringing to light that which has been rendered illegible or impossible within diaspora: the impure, inauthentic, and nonreproductive.Gopinath juxtaposes diverse texts to indicate the range of oppositional practices, subjectivities, and visions of collectivity that fall outside not only mainstream narratives of diaspora, colonialism, and nationalism but also most projects of liberal feminism and gay and lesbian politics and theory. She considers British Asian music of the 1990s alongside alternative media and cultural practices. Among the fictional works she discusses are V. S. Naipaul’s classic novel A House for Mr. Biswas, Ismat Chughtai’s short story “The Quilt,” Monica Ali’s Brick Lane, Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy, and Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night. Analyzing films including Deepa Mehta’s controversial Fire and Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding, she pays particular attention to how South Asian diasporic feminist filmmakers have reworked Bollywood’s strategies of queer representation and to what is lost or gained in this process of translation. Gopinath’s readings are dazzling, and her theoretical framework transformative and far-reaching." --

Gays in popular culture. --- Homosexuality in literature. --- Homosexuality in motion pictures. --- Homosexuality in music. --- South Asians in literature. --- South Asians in mass media. --- South Asians --- Social conditions --- Social conditions. --- Gay people in popular culture.

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This book offers a key analysis of the changing perceptions of family in East Asian societies and the dynamic metamorphosis of “traditional” family units through the twentieth century and into the new millennium. The book focuses on investigations of the Asian family as it is represented in literature, film, and other visual media emerging from within China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, and on contestations of the power hegemonies and moral codes that underpin such representations, while also assessing Western and global influences on the Asian family. Individually and collectively, these essays examine traditions and transformations in the evolving conception of family itself and bring together a range of scholars from within and beyond the region to reflect upon the social and cultural mores represented in these texts, the issues that concern Asian families, and projections for future families in their own societies and in a globalized world. Through the written text and the lens of the camera, what directions has the understanding of family in an Asian context taken in the twenty-first century? How have the multiple platforms of media represented, encouraged, or resisted transitions during this time? Amid broader and mutating referential frameworks and cross-cultural influences, is the traditional concept of the “nuclear family” still relevant in the twenty-first century? This book lends further prominence to the diverse literary and cinematic production within East Asia and the eclectic range of media used to represent these ideas. It will be essential reading for scholars of literature, film studies, and Asian studies, and for those with an interest in the cultural and sociological implications of the changing definitions and parameters of the family unit. Bernard Wilson is a Professor (adjunct) at the Department of English Language and Cultures, Faculty of Letters, Gakushuin University, Tokyo. Sharifah Aishah Osman is Senior Lecturer at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. .

Asians in motion pictures. --- Asians in literature. --- Families in literature. --- Families in motion pictures. --- Oriental literature. --- Motion pictures --- Culture --- Social history. --- Asian Literature. --- Asian Film and TV. --- Cultural Studies. --- Social History. --- Asia. --- Study and teaching.

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What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism investigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms in literary, cinematic, and new media representations, while critically examining the stereotype of Asians as both technologically advanced and intellectually primitive, in dire need of Western consciousness-raising. The collection's fourteen original essays trace the discourse of techno-orientalism across a wide array of media, from radio serials to cyberpunk novels, from Sax Rohmer's Dr. Fu Manchu to Firefly. Applying a variety of theoretical, historical, and interpretive approaches, the contributors consider techno-orientalism a truly global phenomenon. In part, they tackle the key question of how these stereotypes serve to both express and assuage Western anxieties about Asia's growing cultural influence and economic dominance. Yet the book also examines artists who have appropriated techno-orientalist tropes in order to critique racist and imperialist attitudes.

Technology in literature. --- Asians in mass media. --- Asians in motion pictures. --- Asians in literature. --- Science fiction --- Mass media --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism. --- Asia --- In literature. --- Asians in literature --- Asians in motion pictures --- Asians in mass media --- Technology in literature --- S02/0300 --- S02/0310 --- S17/2000 --- S19/0160 --- History and criticism --- China: General works--Chinese culture and the World and vice-versa --- China: General works--Intercultural dialogue --- China: Art and archaeology--Film --- China: Natural sciences--Technology, inventions

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Canadian literature --- Decolonization in literature --- South Asians --- South Asians in literature --- Littérature canadienne --- Décolonisation dans la littérature --- Sud-Asiatiques --- Sud-asiatiques dans la littérature --- South Asian authors --- History and criticism --- Auteurs sud-asiatiques --- Histoire et critique --- 820 <71> --- Engelse literatuur--Canada --- 820 <71> Engelse literatuur--Canada --- Littérature canadienne --- Décolonisation dans la littérature --- Sud-asiatiques dans la littérature --- South Asians in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Postcolonialism --- Asians --- Ethnology --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Canadian literature (English) --- English literature --- South Asian authors&delete&

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Sociology of literature --- Kureishi, Hanif --- Cultural pluralism in literature. --- Immigrants in literature. --- Literature and society --- National characteristics, English, in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Postcolonialism --- South Asians in literature. --- History --- KUREISHI (HANIF), 1954 --- -LITTERATURE ET SOCIETE --- CARACTERISTIQUES NATIONALES --- PLURALISME (SCIENCES SOCIALES) DANS LA LITTERATURE --- LONDRES (GRANDE-BRETAGNE) DANS LA LITTERATURE --- DECOLONISATION DANS LA LITTERATURE --- CRITIQUE ET INTERPRETATION --- ANGLETERRE --- 20E SIECLE --- ANGLAISES