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

Morris, Meaghan

ISBN 10: 9622095615 / ISBN 13: 9789622095618

Published by Hong Kong University Press, 2001

About this Item

The contributors to this volume were asked to think about a "panic" involving race and migration of immediate concern to them. The results are a collection of essays which deal with the fabrication of an idea of "race" and its historical dimensions. Editor(s): Morris, Meaghan; Bary, Brett De. Series: Traces: A Multilingual Series of Cultural Theory & Translation. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFN; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 454. . 2001. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Race, Panic and the Memory of Migration (Traces: A Multilingual Series of Cultural Theory & Translation)
• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9622095615
• ISBN 13: 9789622095618
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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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? Contributors Ien ANG, Victor KOSCHMANN, Rey CHOW, Luke GIBBONS, Yann Moulier BOUTANG, HUANG Ping, JUNG Yeong-hae, Tessa MORRIS-SUZUKI, KOMAGOME Takeshi, KIM Seong-nae, Jacqueline ARMIJO, Ghassan HAGE, SAKIYAMA Masaki, TOMOTARI Mikako, MORI Yoshitaka, OKA Mari

About the Author

Meaghan Morris is a Chair Professor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Brett de Bary is a Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature at Cornell University.