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Jayathurai, Nimmi Agnes.

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Migrant writing and identities in the Asia Pacific: Emplacing the displaced.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Migrant writing and identities in the Asia Pacific: Emplacing the displaced./
Author:	Jayathurai, Nimmi Agnes.
Description:	180 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-07, Section: A, page: 2448.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-07A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3414258
ISBN:	9781124065861

Migrant writing and identities in the Asia Pacific: Emplacing the displaced.
Jayathurai, Nimmi Agnes.

Migrant writing and identities in the Asia Pacific: Emplacing the displaced. - 180 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-07, Section: A, page: 2448.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Houston, 2010.

This dissertation investigates how migrant literature in the Asia Pacific with particular reference to Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and Australia reveals the displaced subjectivities and representations of migrants. Questions of identity are problematic for generations, for while migrants embrace their new nation they are simultaneously dislocated by imposed representations pigeonholing them as "migrant". I argue that migrant writing and its literary sensibilities undermine homogenization in order to recover their distinct and plural subjectivities. Critical discourse while giving voice to individual migrant identities has not addressed a comparative study of these identities beyond national borders and how they differentiate themselves from each other. Governments and powers that be have countered this argument by claiming that categories of "migrant" or "multicultural" sufficiently recognize the heterogeneities of migrants. However the marginalization of migrant literature from normative literature in these countries belies it. Repeatedly, migrant literature has found itself excluded as it does not espouse elements of canonicity, nation building and doxa of its time. Hence I argue that by examining migrant literature one can observe how it offers a counter narrative to the notion of nation. In order to recuperate these identities I have used a comparative approach of a series of texts to tease out specificities and differences to deconstruct the limitations of the term "migrant". The manifestations of hybridity and inbetween spaces in K.S. Maniam's The Return and In A Far Country distinguish Tamil migrant subjectivities and undermine the homogenizing influence of language and race during Malaya's metamorphosis to Malaysia. The feminist texts examined in this study individualize themselves by revealing that the mother-daughter relationships across borders undermine patriarchal repression by critiquing, appropriating and re-envisioning oppressive concepts and traditions to create spaces of agency. The dichotomy between the migrant and the Nation shows how peripheral migrant texts tell their own tales of the nation. Ultimately, this endeavor aims to recognize and legitimize the heterogeneities of migrant literature in the Asia Pacific and to let it erupt into new, breathable spaces.

ISBN: 9781124065861Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

Migrant writing and identities in the Asia Pacific: Emplacing the displaced.
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