Home and Homeland in Asian Diaspora: Transnational Reflections in Art, Literature, and Film

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Interdisciplinary Expressions of Home and the Ancestral Homeland in Asian Diaspora
	Introduction
	Homes and Ancestral Homelands
	Asian Diasporas: “I Call into Question Your Naming of Me. I Trust Your Sight No More” (Kingston 70)
	The Chapters
		Part I: Home is Where You Are—Reimagining Homescapes and Identities
		Part II: Multifaceted Geographies and Affiliations—Renegotiating Notions of Home and Identity
		Part III: Navigating Public History and Private Memories of Home/Land—Space, Sexuality, and Gender Roles
		Part IV: Unpacking Hierarchies of Affiliation and Belonging Involved in a “Return” Journey to an Ancestral Homeland
	Works Cited
Part I: Home Is Where You Are: Reimagining Homescapes and Identities
	Chapter 2: Bao and Turning Red: Eating Chinese in Bloody Toronto
		Works Cited
	Chapter 3: Representation of Comfort Women in Chang-rae Lee’s A Gesture Life and Christina Park’s The Homes We Build on Ashes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 4: Belonging Through Faith: Promised Home/Land in Min Jin Lee’s Free Food for Millionaires
		Works Cited
Part II: Multifaceted Geographies and Affiliations: Renegotiating Notions of Home and Identity
	Chapter 5: Un/homing in an Indigenous Land: Chinese and the Indigenous in Ling Zhang’s “Toward the North”
		Works Cited
	Chapter 6: Homeland Films Without Homeland: Examining Homeland in Soleen Yusef’s Haus ohne Dach [House Without Roof] (2016)
		Works Cited
	Chapter 7: A Sri Lankan Finding and Defining Home in Australia: Sunil Govinnage’s Writings
		Works Cited
	Chapter 8: East Is East (1997) as a Black Comedy of Asian Diasporic Homemaking in 1970s Britain
		Works Cited
Part III: Navigating Public History and Private Memories of Home/Land: Space, Sexuality, and Gender Roles
	Chapter 9: Home and Reformed Identities: A Study of Deepa Mehta’s Queer Diasporic Film Fire
		Works Cited
	Chapter 10: Indian Womanhood as the Site of Home in Lakshmi Persaud’s Sastra
		Works Cited
	Chapter 11: “She Who Is Limitless, Without Borders”: “The Domain of Intimacy” in Lahiri’s The Namesake
		Works Cited
Part IV: Unpacking Hierarchies of Affiliation and Belonging Involved in a “Return” Journey to an Ancestral Homeland
	Chapter 12: NowHere and NoWhere: There’s No Place Like Home in Beth Yahp’s Eat First, Talk Later
		Works Cited
	Chapter 13: Transkoreaning: Decolonizing Adopted Identity Through Artistic Practices and a Return to Home
		Works Cited
Selected Bibliography
Index