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postgraduate thesis: Remembering and re-membering home : postcolonial poetics in 21st century Filipino, Indonesian and Vietnamese diasporic narratives
Title | Remembering and re-membering home : postcolonial poetics in 21st century Filipino, Indonesian and Vietnamese diasporic narratives |
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Issue Date | 2019 |
Publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) |
Citation | Vicera, C. N. T.. (2019). Remembering and re-membering home : postcolonial poetics in 21st century Filipino, Indonesian and Vietnamese diasporic narratives. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. |
Abstract | This dissertation engages with Aleksandra Bida’s concept of a multi-scalar home as a way of
understanding the migrant’s identity and place(s) in the world. In examining the dialectic
between the diasporic subject’s home – both the absent and adopted home – this dissertation
argues that an out-of-sync diasporic subjectivity is manifested in what I call the “poetics of
asynchronicity” that undergird the narratives of Hannah Espia’s film Transit (2013), Clement
Baloup’s graphic novel Vietnamese Memories and Lian Gouw’s novel Only a Girl . The literary
and cinematic representations of mobility in Southeast Asian–specifically Filipino, Indonesian,
and Vietnamese–diasporic narratives, reveal the dual-displacement that characterise the
experience of diasporic mobility – a displacement in space and in time. This dual-displacement
constitutes the migrant’s out-of-sync subjectivity, which is a result of the inability to reduce the
“many temporal worlds,” they live in, “the past of the motherland... a present that is often
precarious, and an uncertain future,” simultaneously into one (Köhn 109). In theorising a
connection between these seemingly disparate narratives, this dissertation is involved in a
decolonization of memory. Through a “poetics of asynchronicity,” readers are compelled to
remember and to re-member stories that have been pushed to the footnotes of history.
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Degree | Master of Arts |
Subject | South Asian diaspora in literature |
Dept/Program | Literary and Cultural Studies |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/279877 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Vicera, Christine Neil Tejedor | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-12-11T06:48:23Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-12-11T06:48:23Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Vicera, C. N. T.. (2019). Remembering and re-membering home : postcolonial poetics in 21st century Filipino, Indonesian and Vietnamese diasporic narratives. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/279877 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This dissertation engages with Aleksandra Bida’s concept of a multi-scalar home as a way of understanding the migrant’s identity and place(s) in the world. In examining the dialectic between the diasporic subject’s home – both the absent and adopted home – this dissertation argues that an out-of-sync diasporic subjectivity is manifested in what I call the “poetics of asynchronicity” that undergird the narratives of Hannah Espia’s film Transit (2013), Clement Baloup’s graphic novel Vietnamese Memories and Lian Gouw’s novel Only a Girl . The literary and cinematic representations of mobility in Southeast Asian–specifically Filipino, Indonesian, and Vietnamese–diasporic narratives, reveal the dual-displacement that characterise the experience of diasporic mobility – a displacement in space and in time. This dual-displacement constitutes the migrant’s out-of-sync subjectivity, which is a result of the inability to reduce the “many temporal worlds,” they live in, “the past of the motherland... a present that is often precarious, and an uncertain future,” simultaneously into one (Köhn 109). In theorising a connection between these seemingly disparate narratives, this dissertation is involved in a decolonization of memory. Through a “poetics of asynchronicity,” readers are compelled to remember and to re-member stories that have been pushed to the footnotes of history. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | HKU Theses Online (HKUTO) | - |
dc.rights | The author retains all proprietary rights, (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works. | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | South Asian diaspora in literature | - |
dc.title | Remembering and re-membering home : postcolonial poetics in 21st century Filipino, Indonesian and Vietnamese diasporic narratives | - |
dc.type | PG_Thesis | - |
dc.description.thesisname | Master of Arts | - |
dc.description.thesislevel | Master | - |
dc.description.thesisdiscipline | Literary and Cultural Studies | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.5353/th_991044166178903414 | - |
dc.date.hkucongregation | 2019 | - |
dc.identifier.mmsid | 991044166178903414 | - |