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Writing the South Seas
Brian C. Bernards
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Description for Writing the South Seas
hardcover. Num Pages: 1 maps, 1 recorded music items, 1 map, 1 chart. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1FPC; DS; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 545.
Postcolonial literature about the South Seas, or Nanyang, examines the history of Chinese migration, localization, and interethnic exchange in Southeast Asia, where Sinophone settler cultures evolved independently by adapting to their "New World" and mingling with native cultures. Writing the South Seas explains why Nanyang encounters, neglected by most literary histories, should be considered crucial to the national literatures of China and Southeast Asia.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295995014
SKU
V9780295995014
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About Brian C. Bernards
Brian Bernards is associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures at the University of Southern California. He is the coeditor of Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader. * Journal of Postcolonial Writing *
Reviews for Writing the South Seas
"Bernards’ book is a successful rewriting of the contours of South East Asian Sinophone literature and identity, which shines a deserving postcolonial light onto its emergent national cultures. . . . Highlighting a space that frequently challenges definition, it deserves attention from postcolonial, Southeast Asian and Chinese specialists alike."
Zhou Hau Liew
Postcolonial Studies
"What permeates this entire volume is a maritime vocabulary representing not only the physical passages of people across the seas but, more important, the consequent traversals occurring in the realm of culture, language, and literature as Chinese immigrants adapt to a new environment. The result is a rich tapestry of writings that embody the experiential gamut of Chinese immigrants physically uprooted from their place of ancestry but unfailingly re-visioning a world amidst the changes."
Dinah Roma
Southeast Asian Studies
"Bernards’s meticulous conceptualization of ‘Nanyang’ as a novel theoretical idiom makes a salient contribution to the critical vocabulary of postcolonialism. Correcting the field’s geographical favouritism, Writing the South Seas provides a bracing account of the sinophone presence in Southeast Asia and prompts new reflections on the debatable positioning of China in postcolonial studies."
Cheow-Thia Chan
Journal of Postcolonial Writing
"A must-read for literary scholars interested in broadening their horizons, Writing the South Seas will no doubt inspire much important future work in these directions."
Alison M. Groppe
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
"Brian Bernards’ enjoyable and illuminating book successfully diversifies the way we think about national literatures as well as about Sinophone literature as essentially a diaspora phenomenon. . . . This book will prove an eye-opening read, not only for scholars and enthusiasts of Sinophone and southeast Asian literatures, but for linguists and literary scholars everywhere."
Astrid Moller-Olsen
New Books Asia
"Bernards’s endeavor complicates the modern Chinese writing scene (the New Literature especially) in a refreshing manner...Bernards has produced a first-rate scholarly work that brings to life the entire writing scene in the Nanyang with knowledge that rivals a native informant’s."
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
"Bernards’ book is a successful rewriting of the contours of South East Asian Sinophone literature and identity, which shines a deserving postcolonial light onto its emergent national cultures. . . . Highlighting a space that frequently challenges definition, it deserves attention from postcolonial, Southeast Asian and Chinese specialists alike."
Zhou Hau Liew
Postcolonial Studies
"Bernards’s meticulous conceptualization of ‘Nanyang’ as a novel theoretical idiom makes a salient contribution to the critical vocabulary of postcolonialism. Correcting the field’s geographical favouritism, Writing the South Seas provides a bracing account of the sinophone presence in Southeast Asia and prompts new reflections on the debatable positioning of China in postcolonial studies."
Cheow-Thia Chan
Zhou Hau Liew
Postcolonial Studies
"What permeates this entire volume is a maritime vocabulary representing not only the physical passages of people across the seas but, more important, the consequent traversals occurring in the realm of culture, language, and literature as Chinese immigrants adapt to a new environment. The result is a rich tapestry of writings that embody the experiential gamut of Chinese immigrants physically uprooted from their place of ancestry but unfailingly re-visioning a world amidst the changes."
Dinah Roma
Southeast Asian Studies
"Bernards’s meticulous conceptualization of ‘Nanyang’ as a novel theoretical idiom makes a salient contribution to the critical vocabulary of postcolonialism. Correcting the field’s geographical favouritism, Writing the South Seas provides a bracing account of the sinophone presence in Southeast Asia and prompts new reflections on the debatable positioning of China in postcolonial studies."
Cheow-Thia Chan
Journal of Postcolonial Writing
"A must-read for literary scholars interested in broadening their horizons, Writing the South Seas will no doubt inspire much important future work in these directions."
Alison M. Groppe
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
"Brian Bernards’ enjoyable and illuminating book successfully diversifies the way we think about national literatures as well as about Sinophone literature as essentially a diaspora phenomenon. . . . This book will prove an eye-opening read, not only for scholars and enthusiasts of Sinophone and southeast Asian literatures, but for linguists and literary scholars everywhere."
Astrid Moller-Olsen
New Books Asia
"Bernards’s endeavor complicates the modern Chinese writing scene (the New Literature especially) in a refreshing manner...Bernards has produced a first-rate scholarly work that brings to life the entire writing scene in the Nanyang with knowledge that rivals a native informant’s."
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
"Bernards’ book is a successful rewriting of the contours of South East Asian Sinophone literature and identity, which shines a deserving postcolonial light onto its emergent national cultures. . . . Highlighting a space that frequently challenges definition, it deserves attention from postcolonial, Southeast Asian and Chinese specialists alike."
Zhou Hau Liew
Postcolonial Studies
"Bernards’s meticulous conceptualization of ‘Nanyang’ as a novel theoretical idiom makes a salient contribution to the critical vocabulary of postcolonialism. Correcting the field’s geographical favouritism, Writing the South Seas provides a bracing account of the sinophone presence in Southeast Asia and prompts new reflections on the debatable positioning of China in postcolonial studies."
Cheow-Thia Chan