Tom O'Regan's book is the first of its kind on Australian post-war cinema. It takes as its
starting point Bazin's question'What is cinema?'and asks what the construct of …

The figure of the disaporic or migrant writer has recently come to be seen as the'Everyman'of
the late modern period, a symbol of the global and the local, a cultural traveller who can …

Examining Hong Kong cinema from its inception in 1913 to the end of the colonial era, this
work explains the key areas of production, market, film products and critical traditions. Hong …

Satendra Nandan has written in his book, Requiem for a Rainbow (2001), that there are at
least three ways of knowing a country: you are born in its landscape and are buried in its …

American Fiction of the 1990s: Reflections of History and Culture brings together essays
from international experts to examine one of the most vital and energized decades in …

The uncertainties and newness that surround us today prompt radical questions about
ourselves and our relationship with the external world. How do and can we belong to the …

This article analyzes texts by East African Asian writers in order to tease out ambiguities and
disjunctions that problematize the relationship between nation and diaspora. First, I briefly …

Since I am both a writer and a critic, bear with me if I wear both hats, alternately and
sometimes concurrently. I am interested in what we need to do as writers and critics. I see …

The impetus for this study comes from the need to understand differential migration patterns
and settlement experiences across the various national and cultural groups commonly …

Asian diasporas are all too often seen in terms of settlement problems in a host nation,
where the focus is on issues of crime, housing, employment, racism and related concerns …