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Translator Translated: Concentric Routes (Roots) of Cultural Identities of Diasporic Chinese Writers

Translation in Diasporic Literatures, 2019
This chapter is an attempt to discuss the cultural identities of diasporic Chinese writers in the context of their translation of Chinese cultures and the way the texts are received when they are translated back into Chinese language. The author examines the in-between situation of Chinese American writers in their postmodern literary representation of
Guang-bing Wang
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Oceans, cities, islands: sites and routes of Afro-diasporic rhythm cultures

Atlantic Studies, 2014
Since at least New York's Jazz Age, people the world over have filled urban social spaces (dance halls, dance clubs, the dance floor) to enjoy themselves through partner dances that evolved from the fusion of African-derived percussive rhythms and body movements on the one hand, and European melodies, instruments, and courtly dance styles on the other.
A. Kabir
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Of Routes and Roots: Paths for Understanding Diasporic Heritage

2015
The scholarly study of heritage and diaspora is relatively recent, but emerges out of earlier theoretical works on the separate domains of heritage/tourism (informed by anthropology, history, geography, museum studies and tourism studies) on the one hand, and diaspora (informed by anthropology, history, geography, political science and area studies) on
A. Reed
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Roots and routes: tracking form and history in African diasporic narrative and performance

Social Dynamics, 2010
Much Black diasporic scholarship is beholden to one or the other of these two claims: the first locates Africa as origin, by way of anthropological verification and corroboration, while the other tends to erase it in the name of an anti‐essentialist articulation of hybridity and creolisation.
Harry Garuba
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Postcolonial routes and diasporic identities: Belonging and displacement in Caryl Phillips'sThe Final PassageandA Distant Shore

Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2009
This article discusses Caryl Phillips's novels The Final Passage (1985) and A Distant Shore (2003), with reference to the displacement and hybridity of the diasporic subject. In Phillips's concept of the “new world order” hegemonic borders are crossed through migration, enabling negotiation and interaction between different cultures. The study examines
Rezzan Kocaoner Silku
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Asian Canadian Futures

2016
Canadian Literature, No.
Lily Cho
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Response to Ananya Kabir, “Oceans, cities, islands: site and routes of Afro-diasporic rhythm cultures”

Atlantic Studies, 2014
Joys H. Y. Cheung
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Negotiating Routes and/or Roots: Heritagisation of nanyin in China and Singapore, 1970s to 2010s

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 2023
Originated in southern China, nanyin (南音) is regarded as ‘the sound of motherland’ (乡音) performed and loved by the Hokkien dialect speakers in Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and diasporic populations living in Southeast Asia. Having thrived in
Beiyu Zhang
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ROUTES AND ROOTS: REDEFINING NATIVE CULTURAL PARADIGMS

Indian Journal Of Applied Research, 2023
Immigrant writers inhabit dual spaces with conicting loyalties exhibiting their angst to strike reconciliation between their routes and roots. These writers, along with giving voice to the vagaries of ethnic existence, also present in their canvas ...
S. Devi S.
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Rooting routes to trans-Atlantic African identities: the metaphor of female descendancy in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing

, 2020
The making and continuous shifts of African identities outside Africa have attracted interest from across critical disciplines. Imaginative literature has achieved a considerable status as a site and optic for critical engagement with evolving dynamics ...
Nonki Motahane, Oliver Nyambi, R. Makombe   +2 more
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