Strangers at home : history and subjectivity among the Chinese communities of West Kalimantan, Indonesia / / by Hui Yew-Foong.
"This is an ethno-historical study of Chinese from West Kalimantan, Indonesia that, unlike other Chinese diasporic studies, takes its departure from the "away" position. The study aims to interrogate how, where, and in what terms "home" is defined for the stranger. Through e...
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Chinese overseas,
v. 5 Chinese Overseas 5. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (358 p.) |
| Notes: | Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Cornell University, Aug., 2007. |
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Table of Contents:
- The Chinese diasporic subject as stranger
- The Japanese occupation and the Chinese anti-Japanese movement
- Post-war, pre-New Order
- Recovering a place in history : narratives of violence
- The vicissitudes of the communist underground
- Negotiating estrangement : between cosmology and the social
- The phenomenology of spirits, or, The presencing of the other
- West Kalimantan as home
- On the politics and poetics of home.