Home and Homeland in Asian Diaspora

Kyunghee Pyun is Associate Professor of History of Art at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York. Her scholarship focuses on history of collecting, reception of Asian art, diaspora of Asian artists, dress history and material culture, and Asian American visual culture.  Jean Amato is Professor in the English and Communication Studies Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York. Her research concentrations are theories of nationalism, diasporic studies, gender and the ancestral home and homeland in twentieth century Chinese and Chinese American literature and film.

• 1: Interdisciplinary Expressions of Home and the Ancestral Homeland in Asian Diaspora.- 2: Bao and Turning Red: Eating Chinese in Bloody Toronto.- 3: Representation of Comfort Women in Chang-rae Lee’s A Gesture Life and Christina Park’s The Homes We Build on Ashes.- 4: Belonging Through Faith: Promised Home/Land in Min Jin Lee’s Free Food for Millionaires.- 5: Un/homing in an Indigenous Land: Chinese and the Indigenous in Ling Zhang’s “Toward the North.- 6: Homeland Films without Homeland: Examining Homeland in Soleen Yusef’s Haus ohne Dach [House Without Roof].- 7: A Sri Lankan Finding and Defining Home in Australia: Sunil Govinnage’s Writings.- 8: East is East (1997) as a Black Comedy of Asian Diasporic Homemaking in 1970s’ Britain.- 9: Home and Reformed Identities: A Study of Deepa Mehta’s Queer Diasporic Film Fire.- 10: Indian Womanhood as the Site of Home in Lakshmi Persaud’s Sastra.- 11:  She Who is Limitless, Without Borders: The Domain of Intimacy in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The  Namesake.- 12: NowHere and NoWhere: There’s No Place like Home in Beth Yahp’s memoir, Eat First, Talk Later.- 13:  Transkoreaning: Decolonizing Adopted Identity Through Artistic Practices and a Return to Home.