Race, Panic and the Memory of Migration (Traces: A Multilingual Series of Cultural Theory & Translation) - Softcover

Morris, Meaghan; De Bary, Brett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9622095615 ISBN 13: 9789622095618

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press, 2001

Synopsis

The second volume of the Traces series, "Race" Panic and the Memory of Migration, explores complex relations between violence, historical memory, and the production of "ethnicity" and "race." Some essays analyze the panicked "othering" that has led to violence against Chinese Indonesians, and to the little-known massacres of Hui Muslims in nineteenth century China and of Cheju Islanders in Korea in 1948. Others examine the fraught discourses surrounding colonialism, immigration, citizenship, and nation-building in Australia, Taiwan, Japan, the United States, and Ireland. What new modes of inscribing experience might counter prejudice against migrant subjectivities? How can one articulate links between diverse subaltern struggles around the global movement of capital? Can shared memories of domination provide the basis for a cosmopolitanism more attentive to local identities?

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About the Author

Meaghan Morris is a Chair Professor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University. Brett de Bary is a Professor of Japanese Literature and East Asian Film at Cornell University

Edition details

• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9622095615
• ISBN 13: 9789622095618
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432