LITERATURES OF THE ASIAN DIASPORA
A FOCUS GRANT PROJECT in
Comparative Literature at Penn State
Other Resources and Suggested Reading
(This is a list in progress. Suggestions and additions are welcome.
Contact Reiko Tachibana <rxn6@psu.edu>.)
Theoretical Contexts
Barkan, Elazar and Marie Denise Shelton, eds. Borders, Exiles, Diasporas. Stanford: Stanford UP,
1998.
Bhabha, Homi K. “Cultures In-Between.” Questions of Cultural Identity. Ed. Stuart Hall and Paul du Gay.
London: Routledge, 1996. 53-61.
---. The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994.
---. Nation and Narration. London: Routledge, 1990.
Brah, Avtar. "Diaspora, Border and Transnational Identities." Cartographies of Diaspora. London: Taylor &
Francis, 1996. 178-210.
Chow, Rey. Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies. Bloomington:
Indiana UP, 1993.
Clifford, James. “Diasporas.” Cultural Anthropology 9 (1994): 302-38.
Cohen, Robin. Global Diasporas: An Introduction. Seattle: U of Washington P, 1997.
Damrosch, David, April Alliston and Djelal Kadir, eds. Longman Anthology of World Literature. 2 vols., each
in multiple parts. New York: Longman, forthcoming early 2004.
Dharwadker, Vinay, ed. Cosmopolitan Geographies: New Locations in Literature and Culture. New York:
Routledge, 2001.
Dirlik, Arif. "The Asia-Pacific in Asian American Perspective." What is in a Rim? Critical Perspectives on the
Pacific Region Idea. Ed. Arif Dirlik. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993. 305-329.
Early, Gerald, ed. Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation. New
York: Allen Lane and Penguin Press, 1993.
Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Trans. Charles Lam Markmann. London: Pluto, 1986.
George, Rosemary Marangoly. The Politics of Home: Post-Colonial Locations and Twentieth-Century
Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
Gourdine, Angeletta. The Difference Place Makes: Gender, Sexuality and Diaspora Identity. Columbus:
Ohio State UP, 2003.
Hagedorn, Jessica. An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction. New York: Penguin, 1993.
Hall, Stuart. “Cultural Identity and Diaspora.” Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader. Ed. Padmini
Mongia. London:
Arnold, 1996. 110-21.
---. “Minimal Selves.” Identity: The Real Me; Post-Modernism and the Question of Identity. Ed. Luisa
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Hassan, Wail S. "World Literature in the Age of Globalization: Reflections on an Anthology." College
English 63 (2000): 38-47.
Hirabayashi, Lane, et al., eds. New Worlds, New Lives: Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the
Americas and From Latin America in Japan. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2002.
Kim, Elaine. "Preface." Charlie Chan is Dead. Ed. Jessica Hagedorn. New York: Penguin, 1993. vii-xiv.
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Lopez, Alfred J. Posts and Pasts: A Theory of Postcolonialism. Albany: State U of New York P,
2001. (selections)
Marcais, Dominique. Literature on the Move: Comparing Diasporic Ethnicities in Europe and the Americas.
Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2002.
Mishra, Sudesh. “Diaspora Criticism.” Introducing Criticism at the 21st Century. Ed. Julian Wolfreys.
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Ong, Aihwa. Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Durham: Duke UP, 1999.
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1996.
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83-99.
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Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Diasporas Old and New: Women in the Transnational World.”
Textual Practice 10 (1996): 245-69.
---. “How to Read a ‘Culturally Different’ Book.” Colonial Discourse / Postcolonial Theory. Eds. Francis
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Tachibana, Reiko. Narrative as Counter-Memory: A Half-Century of Postwar Writing in Germany and
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