Empire and the diasporic formation of Asian America.
详细信息
- 作者：Im ; Kyeong-Kyu.
- 学历：Doctor
- 年：2006
- 导师：Cheng, Vincent J.
- 毕业院校：The University of Utah
- 专业：Literature, American.;Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies.
- ISBN：9780542797477
- CBH：3226981
- Country：USA
- 语种：English
- FileSize：12005867
- Pages：226
文摘
This dissertation explores the diasporic formation of "Asian America" in conjunction with the rise of a new global order, one that Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt call "Empire." The primary concerns of this study are, first, to break down the fictional boundaries between the national and the transnational and to expand the epistemological horizon of Asian American Studies, by illuminating those identity formations that are exorbitant to, or even at odds with, the nation-oriented forms of belonging. Second, to expose the imperialist narrative embedded in both American ideologies and the transnational, diasporic cultural practices of Empire, embodied in what Aihwa Ong terms "flexible citizenship." Not only does such exposure enact an immanent critique of the global Empire as an expansion of US hegemony in the political, cultural, and economic arenas, but it also problematizes Asian Americans' practicing of "flexible citizenship" and their uncritical commitment to the American national ontology as an implicit reinstatement of US imperialism.;In this study, I relocate within a transnational context several important Asian American texts, such as Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life, Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee, ones that have often been used tendentiously to promote the Asian American identity politics within the national boundaries. By relocating those texts within a transnational context through such notions as "diaspora" and "Empire," we can either multiply the contexts for a singular narrative, or juxtapose two or more contradictory images and narratives in such a way that they can subvert each two or more contradictory images and narratives in such a way that they can subvert each other---ultimately, deterritorializing the national boundaries and reconfiguring the national imaginary. In this way, this study attempts not only to generate alternative interpretations of even those texts which are seemingly committed to the Asian American identity politics of "claiming America," but also to deliberately disrupt normative understandings of nationhood and social subjectivity.