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"The Politics of Transnational Memory in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club" sees Tan's representation of memory as either a function of loss (and limited recovery) or of distance (whether temporal or physical). For Schultermandl, the text suggests that familial or national relationships built on generational and immigrant memory cannot really create conditions of solidarity or identification and are thus doomed to failure—either that, or what is "memory" must be transformed by "experience" and then be understood, what Schultermandl calls "belated memory." Schultermandl offers an account of the failure of the narrative to provide for a bond between the generations of women—immigrant mothers and American-born daughters. This conceptual problem is represented by the novel's end, where the overriding implication of the narrative is that in order to reconcile and occupy the identity of a Chinese American one must somehow be both Chinese and American, an experience of being that Schultermandl questions. Additionally, in not representing modern China or modern Chinese women, Schultermandl argues, the novel gives up an opportunity to create a "transnational solidarity" among women in favor of a national identity that supersedes the individual, who in Tan's text becomes a mere stand-in for traditionally held ideological and national stereotypes.

"In our global era, conceptions and experiences of identity, nationality, personhood, and family are in flux, yet many of the ways that lives are lived, and the stereotypes and cultural imperialism that provide a framework for postmodern life, presume fixed characteristics that allow for an easy response to difficult questions. Growing Up Transnational challenges the assumptions behind this fixed framework while looking at the interconnectivity, conflict, and contradictions within current discussions of identity and kinship. This collection offers a fresh, feminist perspective on family relations, identity politics, and cultural locations in a global era. Using an interdisciplinary approach from fields such as gender studies, queer studies, postcolonial theory, and literary theory, the volume addresses the concept of hybridity and the tangible implications of assumed identities. The rich personal narratives of the authors examine hyphenated identities, hybridized families, and the challenges and rewards of lives on and beyond borders. The result is a new transnational sensibility that explores the redefinition of the self, the family, and the nation."--

"Stereotypes and cultural imperialism often provide a framework of fixed characteristics for postmodern life, yet fail to address the implications of questions such as, "Where are you from?" Growing Up Transnational challenges the assumptions behind this fixed framework to look at the interconnectivity, conflict, and contradictions within current discussions of identity and kinship

Stereotypes and cultural imperialism often provide a framework of fixed characteristics for postmodern life, yet fail to address the implications of questions such as, "Where are you from?" Growing Up Transnational challenges the assumptions behind this fixed framework to look at the interconnectivity, conflict, and contradictions within current discussions of identity and kinship.This collection offers a fresh, feminist perspective on family relations, identity politics, and cultural locations in a global era. Using an interdisciplinary approach from fields including gender studies, postcolonial theory, and literary theory, this volume questions the concept of hybridity and the tangible implications of assumed identities. The rich personal narratives of the authors explore hyphenated identities, hybridized families, and the challenges and rewards of lives on and beyond borders. The result is a new transnational sensibility that explores the redefinition of the self, the family, and the nation.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Theorizing Kinship and Ethnicity in Contemporary North American and European Literature -- Kinship as Affective Belonging -- Theorizing the Intersections of Ethnicity and Kinship -- Emerging Themes -- Notes -- Work Cited -- Familiar/Familial Kinship -- 1 From Familiar to Familial: Gloria Anzaldúa's Queer Rhetorical Kinship -- What, Historically, is Ethos? -- Anzaldúa's Borderlands: Departing from "Standpoint," Arriving at "Confluence" -- Nepantla: An Art of Kinship through Poetic "Com-position" -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 2 From China to Cuba, and Back: The Conundrums of Ethnic Identity and Kinship in Cristina García's Monkey Hunting -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 3 In Praise of the Kitchen Poet: Cooking as Kinship in Ethnic Culinary Memoirs -- Home-Cooked Food: Enforcing Cultural Belonging or Creating Kinship? -- Kitchen Poets -- A Longing to Belong and "Be Long" -- Conclusion: Textual Kinship -- Note -- Works Cited -- Kinship States -- 4 Beyond Kinship and National Identity: Ika Hügel-Marshall's Daheim Unterwegs: Ein Deutsches Leben -- Introduction -- Racial Blackness in Postwar Germany -- Queered Belonging and Diasporic Consciousness -- "At Home on the Way" -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 5 Care, Intimacy, and Kinship: Rethinking Traditional Narratives of the Family in Adrian Tomine's "A Brief History of ... -- Introduction -- Reimagining Familiar and Familial Kinships -- Gendering Care and Kinship -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 6 Narratives of Intimacy: Ethnic Nationalism, Kinship, and Sexuality in Contemporary Bosnian-Herzegovinian Literature -- Transnational and Transethnic Sensibility as Reading Practice -- War and Post-War Divisions: Ethnic Nationalism and Kinship Relations.

In commemoration of the proclamation of the end of slavery in the United States on June 19, 1865, writer, activist, and performer Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton read from and discussed her memoir Black Chameleon at the 2023 Juneteenth Dialogue hosted by the Chair of American Studies at the University of Münster. The Juneteenth Dialogues are designed to enter into a discussion about systemic racism in the United States and to explore literary responses to the vulnerabilities of Black lives and strategies of (literary) resistance. With Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, the focus of conversation was on the importance of mythology for Black women in the United States, the potentials of autobiographical writing, and the importance of literature today. Mythology, in Mouton's work, builds on what Audre Lourd called "biomythography" to combine personal experience, popular culture, history, and received narratives that are part of ancient storytelling traditions. In Mouton's hands, this becomes a technique for getting closer to some of the complex truths of a past grounded in enslavement. Mouton's reading from Black Chameleon and the panel discussion that followed are the basis of this interview. It has been edited for clarity. We want to thank the audience of the 2023 Juneteenth Dialogues as well as Dr. Ortwin Lämke and Frederik Köpke from the Studiobühne for providing the space for this event.

What makes up a public, what governs dominant discourses, and in which ways can counterpublics be created through narrative? This edited collection brings together essays on affect and narrative theory with a focus on the topics of gender and sexuality. It explores the power of narrative in literature, film, art, performance, and mass media, the construction of subjectivities of gender and sexuality, and the role of affect in times of crisis. By combining theoretical, literary, and analytical texts, the contributors offer methodological impulses and reflect on the possibilities and limitations of affect theory in cultural studies.

What makes up a public, what governs dominant discourses, and in which ways can counterpublics be created through narrative? This edited collection brings together essays on affect and narrative theory with a focus on the topics of gender and sexuality. It explores the power of narrative in literature, film, art, performance, and mass media, the construction of subjectivities of gender and sexuality, and the role of affect in times of crisis. By combining theoretical, literary, and analytical texts, the contributors offer methodological impulses and reflect on the possibilities and limitations of affect theory in cultural studies.