Exoticism or Visceral Cosmopolitanism
Difference and Desire in Chinese Australian Women's Writing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3610427 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wenche Ommundsen (University of Wollongong, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 595-607 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Intercultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-6868 • E-ISSN: 1469-9540 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07256868.2019.1651706 |
| OpenAlex | W2974663028 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
In Visceral Cosmopolitanism, Mica Nava posits a positive and, by her own admission, utopian alternative to postcolonial readings of the sexualisation of difference: a cosmopolitanism located with the antiracist ‘micro-narratives and encounters of the emotional, gendered and domestic everyday’ (2007: 14). Olivia Khoo, in The Chinese Exotic, defines a new, diasporic Chineseness which ‘conceives of women and femininity, not as the oppressed, but as forming part of the new visibility of Asia’ (2007: 12). My reading of recent fiction by Chinese Australian women writers proposes to test these theories against more established models for understanding East/West intimate encounters such as exoticism, Orientalism and Occidentalism, speculating that they may offer a more nuanced understanding of both the complexity and the normalisation of difference in the affective cultures of the twenty-first century
Aesthetics · Art · China · Cosmopolitanism · Exoticism · Femininity · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Orientalism · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy
Proximal Gastrectomy and Gastric Tube Reconstruction for Early Cancer of the Gastric Cardia
Poison, polygamy and postcolonial politics
The Chinese Exotic
Women Writers in Postsocialist China
When True Love Came to China
Minority Rules
Visceral Cosmopolitanism
Preoccupations of Some Asian Australian Women’s Fiction at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century
Hmong Means Free
Women writers in postsocialist China
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |