Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies

Abstract

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I. Introduction: Leading Questions II. Where Have All the Natives Gone? III. Postmodern Automatons IV. Pedagogy, Trust, Chinese Intellectuals in the 1990s: Fragments of a Post-Catastrophic Discourse V. Against the Lures of Diaspora: Minority Discourse, Chinese Women, and Intellectual Hegemony VI. The Politics and Pedagogy of Asian Literatures in American Universities VII. Listening Otherwise, Music Miniaturized: A Different Type of Question about Revolution VIII. Media, Matter, Migrants GLOSSARY NOTES WORKS CITED INDEX