TY  - BOOK
AU  - Igartuburu García,Elena
TI  - Affect, performativity, and Chinese diasporas in the Caribbean: hopeful futures 
T2  - Routledge studies in postcolonial literatures
SN  - 9781003373858
U1  - 809/.8951 23/eng/20231031
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Caribbean literature
KW  - 21st century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Chinese diaspora in literature
KW  - Affect (Psychology) in literature
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
KW  - Caribbean Area
KW  - In literature
N1  - Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--Universidad de Oviedo, 2015; Chinese diasporas in the Americas: theoretical boundaries and textual possibilities -- Between diasporas: community as solidarity -- Melancholic belonging: colonial violence and resolution -- Emerging tensions: coloniality, Bildungsroman, and the limits of hope -- Countervisual narratives: visualities, imaginaries, archives -- Conclusion: Towards a posthuman vocabulary for hopeful futures
N2  - "Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean: Hopeful Futures analyzes the emergence of Chinese diasporic literature and art in the Caribbean and its diasporas in the twenty-first century. This book considers the historical and critical discourse about the Chinese diasporas in the Caribbean and proposes a textual and visual archive selecting contemporary texts that signal a changing paradigm in postcolonial literature at the turn of the twenty-first century. Whereas, historically, Chinese minorities had been erased or presented as ultimate Others, contemporary texts mobilize Chinese characters and their stories strategically to propose alternative configurations of community and belonging grounded in affective structures and contest the coloniality of national imaginaries"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003373858
ER  -