Haunted Cosmopolitanisms: Spectres of Chinese Art in the Diaspora

Maravillas, F

Haunted Cosmopolitanisms: Spectres of Chinese Art in the Diaspora

Maravillas, F

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Publisher:: Rodopi
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Cosmopatriots: On Distant Belongings and Close Encounters, 2007, First, pp. 253 - 281
Issue Date:: 2007-01

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dc.contributor.author	Maravillas, F	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Jurriens	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Edwin	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Kloet, JD	en_US
dc.date.issued	2007-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Cosmopatriots: On Distant Belongings and Close Encounters, 2007, First, pp. 253 - 281	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-90-420-2360-4	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/17326
dc.description.abstract	Maravillas examines a number of artists (Guan Wei, Ah Xian, Fan Dongwang, Shen Jaiwei and Guo Jian) who migrated from China to Australia in the late 1980s and early 1990s and shows how the work and identity of these artists may be situated in relation to a renewed cosmopolitan framework of understanding,one attuned to their transnational forms of imagining and living,as well as their particular local contexts of art-making,exchange and appraisal. Particular attention is paid to how these artists alter and reconfigure the 'Chineseness' of their originary 'homeland' culture by creatively restaging it in the context of their new adopted 'home.' In this way, 'Chineseness' appears as a spectral entity that both haunts,and is haunted by,the work and identity of these diasporic Chinese artists. Their 'cosmopolitan' experience of migration and diaspora can thus be viewed as one that is haunted by ghosts, while also producing forms of haunting that enact a politics and poetics of memory and translation.	en_US
dc.publisher	Rodopi	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Cosmopatriots: On Distant Belongings and Close Encounters	en_US
dc.title	Haunted Cosmopolitanisms: Spectres of Chinese Art in the Diaspora	en_US
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dc.location.activity	Florence, Italy
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Abstract:

Maravillas examines a number of artists (Guan Wei, Ah Xian, Fan Dongwang, Shen Jaiwei and Guo Jian) who migrated from China to Australia in the late 1980s and early 1990s and shows how the work and identity of these artists may be situated in relation to a renewed cosmopolitan framework of understanding,one attuned to their transnational forms of imagining and living,as well as their particular local contexts of art-making,exchange and appraisal. Particular attention is paid to how these artists alter and reconfigure the 'Chineseness' of their originary 'homeland' culture by creatively restaging it in the context of their new adopted 'home.' In this way, 'Chineseness' appears as a spectral entity that both haunts,and is haunted by,the work and identity of these diasporic Chinese artists. Their 'cosmopolitan' experience of migration and diaspora can thus be viewed as one that is haunted by ghosts, while also producing forms of haunting that enact a politics and poetics of memory and translation.

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