The Diary Weblog and the Traveling Tales of Diasporic Tourists
Författare
Summary, in English
As has been commonly recognised, the Internet enables a transcendence of physical and national boundaries and therefore constitutes an ideal place for forging diasporic connections. There is no denying that the Internet has the potential to greatly affect how diasporic identities and senses of belonging are formed; the question is how, and in what online context? This article investigates a cluster of Asian American diary bloggers connected to a web-ring whose aim is to foster diasporic connections. More specifically, this article performs a discourse analysis of the tales of travelling to the ancestral homeland circulating within this cluster. I argue that the ancestral homes produced in these blogs are above all shaped by the real and imagined audience of fellow Asian American diary bloggers and the geographical and discursive place from which the ancestral home is imagined, i.e. the US. The diasporic imagination here emerges as locally situated.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2006
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
299-312
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Journal of Intercultural Studies
Volym
27
Issue
4
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Taylor & Francis
Ämne
- Gender Studies
Nyckelord
- Ethnic Travel Writing
- Diasporic Identity
- Authenticity
- Diary Weblog
- Online Community Formation
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0725-6868