MCLC: Being Chinese in the Contemporary World

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: kirk (denton.2 at osu.edu)
Subject: Being Chinese in the Contemporary World
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MCLC and MCLC Resource Center are pleased to announce publication of Arif
Dirlik's review essay, "Literary Identity/Cultural Identity: Being Chinese
in the Contemporary World." The essay discusses recent works such as:

Global Chinese Literature: Critical Essays, edited by Jing Tsu and David
Der-wei Wang (2010); a special issue of Amerasia Journal, ³Towards a Third
Literature: Chinese Writing in the Americas,² edited by Evelyn Hu-DeHart,
Russell Leong, and Ning Wang (2012); Shu-mei Shih¹s Visuality and
Identity: Sinophone Articulations Across the Pacific (2007); Sinophone
Studies: A Critical Reader, edited by Shu-mei Shi, Chien-hsin Tsai, and
Brian Bernards (2013); and a special issue of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies
(IACS), ³Asian American Studies in Asia² (2012).

Too long to post here, the essay can be read at its permanent home:

http://mclc.osu.edu/rc/pubs/dirlik.htm

It is listed both under the MCLC Resource Center Publications and Book
Reviews:

http://mclc.osu.edu/rc/pubs.htm
http://mclc.osu.edu/rc/reviews.htm

My thanks to Nicholas Kaldis for ushering this essay to publication. We
hope that it stirs some conversation about the important shift toward the
transnational and the Sinophone in the field of modern Chinese literary
studies.

Best,

Kirk A. Denton
Editor, MCLC