Journal articles: 'FICTION / Asian American'

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Sohn, Stephen Hong, Paul Lai, and Donald C. Goellnicht. "Theorizing Asian American Fiction." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 56, no. 1 (2010): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1661.

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Fan, Christopher T. "Semiperipherality and the Taiwanese American Novel." College Literature 50, no. 2-3 (March 2023): 212–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lit.2023.a902217.

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Abstract: While Asian American authors have certainly produced narratives of return to their or their predecessors' countries of origin, these narratives have, until recently, predominantly appeared in memoir and autobiography. Since the turn of the millennium there's been a significant uptick in the fictional portrayal of return. In stark contrast to the spiritual and filial returns in memoir, these fictional portrayals tend not to sentimentalize return. The protagonists who return more often follow economic or professional trajectories. In novels like Tao Lin's Taipei (2013), Ling Ma's Severance (2018), Han Ong's The Disinherited (2004), Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being (2013), Brian Ascalon Roley's American Son (2001), and Lucy Tan's What We Were Promised (2018), return to Asia intensifies rather than vitiates material structures of alienation. What we find is that they tend to undermine an emerging Twenty-first century racial form that welds the Asian to neoliberal flexibility, even if they often forego critique. This article will describe contemporary Asian/American return fictions in contrast to earlier manifestations of the genre and explore their problematic relationship to categories like Asian American and Anglophone Asian fiction.

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Koshy, Susan. "The Fiction of Asian American Literature." Yale Journal of Criticism 9, no. 2 (1996): 315–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/yale.1996.0017.

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Kartika, Tyas Willy, and Maria Elfrieda C.S.T. "FEMSLASH FANFICTION AND LESBIANISM: EFFORTS TO EMPOWER AND EXPRESS ASIAN AMERICAN WOMAN SEXUALITY." Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies 8, no. 2 (October 11, 2021): 106. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/rubikon.v8i2.69689.

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The existence of fan fiction nowadays shows more progressive development especially in this digital era when people does not only use internet for communicating and socializing across time and space but they also show their creativity, one of them is by writing a fan fiction. By writing fan fiction in online platforms, people get the opportunity to express their interests and their identities. This opportunity is also obtained by minority groups such as LGBTQ+ where they can express their identity through fan fiction. LGBTQ+ community utilizes online platform as the tool that brings benefit for them. In this case, writing fan fiction in online platforms allows people to create the preferable representation of minority groups and empower them as the part of LGBTQ+ community. This phenomenon can be seen through a website named Asianfanfics.com which shows an increasing number of fan fictions especially the ones with lesbian related tags such as girl x girl, lesbian, and femslash. Particularly, through the femslash subgenre, people use fan fiction to question the heteronormativity. Regarding to this phenomenon, an interview was conducted by choosing three Asian American fan fiction writers from Asianfanfics.com as the interviewees. Furthermore, by using gender theory and intersectionality, this article focuses on how fan fiction becomes a safe space to express their sexual identities and how lesbian relationship is viewed by Asian families.

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Fan, Christopher T. "Democratic Realism, National Allegory, and the Future of the Asian American Novel." American Literary History 35, no. 1 (February 1, 2023): 471–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajac235.

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Abstract Recent fiction by Asian Americans grapples with, on the one hand, the waning stakes and political failure of American identity (a democratic realism), and, on the other hand, the allure of Asia’s simultaneous capitalist challenge and alternative to US-based racial form (a capitalist realism). This article argues that the tensions and contradictions of this conjuncture are registered in recent Asian American novels via national allegory and reads the aesthetic partition between comedy and tragedy in Marie Myung-ok Lee’s 2022 novel The Evening Hero as exemplary of this formal approach.If the transnational turn promised a way out of US democratic realism and the dominance of its ethnographic imperative, then how have recent Asian American novels registered the process of turning to Asia and away from America?

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Yao, Xine. "Desire and Asian Diasporic Fiction: Democracy and the Representative Status of Onoto Watanna’s Miss Numè of Japan (1899)." American Literary History 35, no. 1 (February 1, 2023): 97–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajac154.

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Abstract “Onoto Watanna,” the pseudo-Japanese penname of the mixed-race Chinese Winnifred Eaton, acts as a “Bad Grandma” of the Asian North American literary tradition. Building upon Susan Koshy’s and Lisa Lowe’s accounts of the Asian American novel, I approach Watanna’s Miss Numè of Japan (1899) as the “first Asian American novel” representative of an accommodationist, rather than resistant, tendency “Asian American” representation that anticipates the aggregate and disaggregate problems and possibilities of that political formation in US liberal democracy. The novel, a tale of interracial romances set in Japan, tracks the uncomfortable tensions and convergences of desire and Asian diasporic fiction that speaks to the heteronormative bourgeois construction of anti-Black settler colonial “Asian America.” By tapping into the seduction and marriage plot traditions of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century (white) domestic fiction, Miss Numè racially recodes the genre’s processes of meaning-making about freedom, coercion, and material stability onto a comparative global stage. The romances allegorize negotiations between Japan and the US as two rising global imperialist powers, asymmetries of power coded as Asiatic racialized gender. Miss Numè traces fantasies of individualist desire inextricable from the novel’s status as a compromised origin for the Asian American novel and Asian Americanist coalitional politics.With this “bad” early entry in the Asian American literary tradition, the beginnings of a cross-ethnic Asian sensibility reveals the bourgeois fantasies of diasporic desire at its very emergence, not as a postlapsarian ossification.

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Mao, Sophia. "Inscrutable Belongings: Queer Asian North American Fiction." Amerasia Journal 46, no. 2 (May 3, 2020): 255–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2020.1867031.

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Upadhyay, Samrat, and John Schilb. "Writing Cross-Culturally." College English 74, no. 6 (July 1, 2012): 554–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ce201220311.

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The editor of College English interviews the noted Nepali American fiction writer Samrat Upadhyay, specifically analyzing with him issues of translation that he has faced in his own work and that he has found in the prose of other Asian and Asian American authors who, like him, primarily address an Anglo-American audience.

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Gifford, James, Margaret Konkol, James M. Clawson, Mary Foltz, Sophie Maruéjouls-Koch, Orion Ussner Kidder, and Lindsay Parker. "XVI American Literature: The Twentieth Century." Year's Work in English Studies 98, no. 1 (2019): 1047–128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ywes/maz017.

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Abstract This chapter has eight sections: 1. Poetry; 2. Fiction 1900–1945; 3. Fiction since 1945; 4. Drama; 5. Comics; 6. African American Writing; 7. Native Writing; 8. Latino/a, Asian American, and General Ethnic Writing. Section 1 is by James Gifford and Margaret Konkol; section 2 is by James M. Clawson; section 3 is by Mary Foltz; section 4 is by Sophie Maruéjouls-Koch; section 5 is by Orion Ussner Kidder; section 6 will resume next year; section 7 is by James Gifford and Lindsay Parker; section 8 will resume next year.

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Yu, T. "Traveling Genres and the Failure of Asian American Short Fiction." Genre 39, no. 4 (January 1, 2006): 23–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00166928-39-4-23.

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Esaki, Brett J. "Ted Chiang’s Asian American Amusement at Alien Arrival." Religions 11, no. 2 (January 22, 2020): 56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11020056.

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In the 2016 movie Arrival, aliens with advanced technology appear on Earth in spaceships reminiscent of the black obelisk in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film presents this arrival as a serious problem to be solved, with the future of human life and interplanetary relationships in the balance. The short story, “Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang, on which the film was based, takes a different, amusing route that essentially depicts an ideal vision of the era of colonialism. To articulate this reading, this article will compare Chiang’s science fiction (SF) to the genre in general and will take Isiah Lavender III’s positionality of otherhood to reveal how Chiang’s work expresses a Chinese American secular faith in a moral universe. It will analyze the narrative form in Chiang’s collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, and will use it to compare the prose and film versions of “Story of Your Life.” It will also explain how Chiang may be using a nonlinear orthography and variational principles of physics to frame multileveled humor. It utilizes theories of humor by John Morreall and analyses of Chinese American secularity by Russell Jeung and concludes that Chiang’s work reflects concerns and trends of Asian Americans’ secularized religions.

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Kakar, Sara Iqbal, Humaira Riaz, and Nayab Ahmad Khan. "‘WAR AS REMEDY OR POISON’: READING THE BLIND MAN'S GARDEN AND THE KITE RUNNER WITH A CRITICAL LENS OF MBEMBE’S NECROPOLITICS." Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews 9, no. 3 (June 30, 2021): 1577–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.18510/hssr.2021.93158.

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Purpose of the Study: This study emphasizes the contribution of fiction in highlighting the American exercise of power around the world predominantly Pakistan and Afghanistan. It investigates how America has become a dictating body deciding the life and death of human beings mainly in South Asian developing countries. Methodology: Being Qualitative, this study uses Eaglestone’s (2000) close reading technique to analyze words and structure of the texts of Khalid Hosseini's The Kite Runner and Nadeem Aslam Khan’s The Blind Man’s Garden. It develops a descriptive thesis leading to construct arguments by drawing a theoretical framework from Mbembe’s necropolitics (2003). Mbembe took his inspiration from Foucault’s idea of bio-power. Modern narrative discourse on sovereignty and its relation to war is taken as the main subject of necropolitics. Mbembe’s idea of sovereignty as an exercise to get control of the mortality of the enemy helps to interpret the texts via the close reading method. Main Findings: This study evaluated two novels to assert that necropolitics by taking its four basic concepts, power, war, politics, and death was the actual controlling power of a country. It analyzed fictional characters to argue how individuals endured hardships because of the necropolitical exercise of America and Russia in Afghanistan. Mbembe’s conception of necropolitics helps in understanding fiction. Applications of this study: The present study has significant implications from both theoretical and interpretative perspectives. Necropolitics, originally a political notion is reworked in fiction, which asserts that using this concept, power relations, their roots, and exercise around the world can be explored in various fields. This study contributes to dismantling the latent necropolitics in the society represented in fiction. It elevates the social and political consciousness of the general public of South Asia, particularly Pakistan and Afghanistan. This study can be helpful in the field of psychology to popularize the notion of necropolitics in contemporary society. Novelty/Originality of this study: Comparatively a new field, Necropolitics has been discussed in the fields of medical sciences and education. This study significantly highlights its existence in the field of literary studies. Fiction as a direct reflection of society helps in deconstructing the prevailing exercise of necropolitics in South Asian society. It is also helpful in raising the social and political consciousness of South Asian people.

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Kim, Jinah. "The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 57, no. 1 (2011): 158–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2011.0002.

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Eng, Chris A. "Inscrutable Belongings: Queer Asian North American Fiction by Stephen Hong Sohn." Journal of Asian American Studies 22, no. 3 (2019): 447–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2019.0032.

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Lee, Abigail Jinju. "What Comes after #StopAsianHate? Asian American Feminist Speculation." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 44, no. 3 (2023): 92–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/fro.2023.a922879.

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Abstract: Growing Asian American abolition feminisms is a practice not only of politics, organizing, and struggle, but of imagination, and speculative fiction and poetry can work to inspire and sustain such imaginations. Speculative and experimental works also challenge conventions of literary realism in Asian American literature, opening generic and imaginative possibilities for Asian American feminist politics. Responding to the threats of police violence and of racialized violence against Asian North American women, Franny Choi’s queer feminist cyborg poetics open space beyond the violences of the human, and Kai Cheng Thom’s Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir bends space and time to join trans women’s community together in ease and safety. Vandana Singh’s utopias of the third kind locate utopic thinking in the struggles of oppressed and racialized people to build and sustain community through slowness and connection. Together, these speculations consider Asian American feminist futurities and what ways of being-otherwise we can share in the present and future, shaped by connection, community, and care, rather than urgency, scarcity, and fear. Analyzing how these works respond to violence and crisis, this article describes abolitionist possibilities for Asian American feminisms that respond to anti-Asian and state violence by seeking other genres of human life and rejecting linear notions of progress. Instead, these texts cultivate connection and community in the present as a project of shaping Asian American utopic visions, rethinking utopia not as a vision of future perfection, but an ethic of embracing and negotiating change, difference, and multiplicity.

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Šesnić, Jelena. "“Uncanny Domesticity” in Contemporary American Fiction: The Case of Jhumpa Lahiri." Kultura Popularna 4, no. 54 (May 7, 2018): 94–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0011.6724.

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The argument contends that Jhumpa Lahiri’s fiction – in particular her two novels to date, The Namesake (2003) and The Lowlands (2013) – features a combination of the elements of homeliness and estrangement, domestic and foreign, ultimately, self and the other, that evokes the Freudian concept of the uncanny. Placing it in the context of the diasporic family dynamics, prevalent in Lahiri’s fiction, the uncanny effect may be seen to reside in the unspoken secrets and repressed content passed on from the first to the second generation and disturbing the neat acquisition of the trappings of middle-class domesticity. Drawing on recent models of the “geopolitical novel” (Irr), the “new immigrant fiction” (Koshy) and the “South Asian diasporic novel” (Grewal), the reading engages with the irruption of the unhomely into the domestic space, sustained by immigrant families in the face of local and global disturbances.

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Chua, Cheng Lok. "Carlos Bulosan’s America is in the Heart: Witnessing American Colonialism in Asia." Mindscape: A Journal of English & Cultural Studies 2, no. 1 (December 31, 2023): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/mjecs.v2i1.61725.

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Carlos Bulosan’s America Is In the Heart (first published in 1943) is a masterpiece of autobiographical fiction about the Asian American (specifically the Filipino American) immigrant experience. Its setting is the Philippines and the western United States (particularly California) during the years between World War I and World War II. Its structure is patterned after the success story trajectory of the bildungsroman that culminates in the protagonist’s attainment of the American Dream. But the narrative matter of America Is In the Heart forms an unrelenting witness to the persistence of pernicious American colonial policies vis-à-vis the military, land ownership, and education which exists alongside the ubiquitous demeaning prejudices of racism and classism permeating American attitudes and behavior. This narrative testimony prompts the attentive reader to interrogate the achievability of the American Dream for Bulosan’s first-person narrator-protagonist. Many readers, therefore, come away from a scrutiny of Bulosan’s book with a sense of aporia, a tension that paradoxically adds a layer of complexity to this canonical text even as it may disrupt its ostensibly conventional bildungsroman template.

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Black, Shameem. "White and Indian? Intermarriage and Narrative Authority in South Asian American Fiction." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 36, no. 1 (March 2013): 134–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2012.715572.

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Green-Barteet, Miranda A. "Growing Up Asian American in Young Adult Fiction ed. by Ymitri Mathison." Lion and the Unicorn 43, no. 3 (2019): 433–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/uni.2019.0035.

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Huang, Michelle N. "Racial Disintegration: Biomedical Futurity at the Environmental Limit." American Literature 93, no. 3 (July 26, 2021): 497–523. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9361293.

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Abstract Illuminating how biomedical capital invests in white and Asian American populations while divesting from Black surplus populations, this article proposes recent Asian American dystopian fiction provides a case study for analyzing futurities where healthcare infrastructures intensify racial inequality under terms that do not include race at all. Through a reading of Chang-rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea (2014) and other texts, the article develops the term studious deracination to refer to a narrative strategy defined by an evacuated racial consciousness that is used to ironize assumptions of white universalism and uncritical postracialism. Studious deracination challenges medical discourse’s “color-blind” approach to healthcare and enables a reconsideration of comparative racialization in a moment of accelerating social disintegration and blasted landscapes. Indeed, while precision medicine promises to replace race with genomics, Asian American literature is key to showing how this “postracial” promise depends on framing racial inequality as a symptom, rather than an underlying etiology, of infrastructures of public health.

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Rzepka, Charles J. "Race, Region, Rule: Genre and the Case of Charlie Chan." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 122, no. 5 (October 2007): 1463–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2007.122.5.1463.

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This essay analyzes genre's impact on racial representation in a body of popular fiction that has shaped European Americans' definition of Asian American identity for more than three-quarters of a century: the Charlie Chan novels of Earl Derr Biggers. To advance his stated goal of overturning Chinese stereotypes, Biggers experimented with genres of locale and criminality. The Hawaiian setting of his first Chan story, The House without a Key, challenged the generic topography of Chinatown regionalism by invoking a counterintuitive regionalist prototype, while the book's plot followed the conventions of classical detective fiction, a highly formulaic subgenre of crime literature that perpetuated racist stereotypes while dominating best-seller lists throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Exploiting a unique feature of the detective formula known as rule subversion, however, Biggers enlisted the genre's very tendencies toward racism to undermine racist stereotypes.

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Lam, Melissa. "Diasporic literature." Cultural China in Discursive Transformation 21, no. 2 (July 5, 2011): 309–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/japc.21.2.08lam.

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Only since the 1960s has the Asian Diaspora been studied as a historical movement greatly impacting the United States — affecting not only socio-historical cultural trends and geographic ethnography, but also culturally redefining major areas of Western history and culture. This paper explores the reverse impact of the Asian America Diaspora on Mainland China or the Chinese Motherland. Mainland Chinese writers Ha Jin and Yiyun Li have left China and today teach in major American universities and reside in America. However, the fiction of both authors explores themes and landscapes that remain immersed in Mainland Chinese culture, traditions and environment. Both authors explore the themes of “cultural collisions” between East and West, choosing to write in their adopted English language instead of their mother Putonghua tongue. Central to this paper is the idea that ethnicity and race are socially and historically constructed as well as contested, reclaimed and redefined

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Balce, Nerissa S. "Laughter Against the state: On Humor, Postcolonial Satire, and Asian American Short Fiction." Journal of Asian American Studies 19, no. 1 (2016): 47–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2016.0012.

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Salas, Katherine. "Home to Stay: Asian American Women’s Fiction ed. by Sylvia Watanabe, Carol Bruchac." Western American Literature 26, no. 2 (1991): 165–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wal.1991.0002.

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Ni, Pi-hua. "It is More than a Bunch of Numbers: Trauma, Voicing and Identity in Jennifer Chow’s The 228 Legacy." "Res Rhetorica" 7, no. 4 (December 27, 2020): 98–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.29107/rr2020.4.7.

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This paper explores how Jennifer Chow’s The 228 Legacy (2013) recaptures the buried hi/stories of the 228 Massacre with a trauma narrative about Silk’s deep-kept secrets. It first delineates the evolution of trauma theory and trauma fiction highlighting the significance of articulating trauma and its relevance in healing, hi/storytelling and identity construction. This demarcation shall frame a critical lens to illustrate how Chow innovates distinct insulated narratives on the protagonists to mimic intergenerational ramifications of trauma in the Lu family, to represent their psychological healing and to express the association between silence-breaking, remembering and identity construction. This critical endeavor will also demonstrate that Silk’ story of survival promises the survival of hi/story. Thus, the novel proper not only portrays the traumatic impact, a nightmarish “legacy,” of 228 but also renders Silk’s trauma narrative as the “legacy” to connect with Taiwanese heritage and construct Taiwanese American identities. Given Chow’s innovative form and unique themes about trauma and Taiwanese American diaspora, the article situates her novel in the emerging Taiwanese American literature, Asian American literature, contemporary American diasporic literature and trauma fiction.

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O. Pagan, Nicholas. "From C.Y. Lee to Shawn Wong: The Transnational Family and its Implicit Rules." Southeast Asian Review of English 58, no. 2 (December 15, 2021): 30–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol58no2.3.

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Employing the distinction between explicit and implicit rules as formulated by psychoanalytic theorist and philosopher Slavoj Žižek, this article examines the way in which challenges toward an initial rule-based fantasy take place within transnational families. In particular, the article employs an implicit, unwritten rules framework to assess the effect of transpacific migration on the institution of family within the Chinese American diaspora as represented in post-World War II fiction by Asian Pacific authors C.Y. Lee and Shawn Wong. Suggesting five implicit rules underpinning Chinese American families, the article examines Lee’s The Flower Drum Songto highlight early challenges to these rules before finding in Wong’s Homebasean unflinching adherence to an implicit rule concerning reverence for ancestors. Wong has the advantage of writing in the wake of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act and of being in a position to trace more and more challenges to the initial fantasy following later waves of transpacific migration. His novel American Kneesis then shown to epitomize the implicit rules being stretched almost to breaking point as, for instance, the criteria for spouse selection becomes no longer Chinese or partially Chineseor even Asian or partially Asian but Americanization.

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Chiu, Monica. "Asian American Literature in the International Context: Readings on Fiction, Poetry, and Performance (review)." Journal of Asian American Studies 5, no. 3 (2002): 288–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2003.0015.

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Min Hyoung Song. "The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction (review)." Journal of Asian American Studies 13, no. 3 (2010): 402–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2010.0002.

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Nopper, Tamara K. "The 1992 Los Angeles Riots and the Asian American Abandonment Narrative as Political Fiction." CR: The New Centennial Review 6, no. 2 (2006): 73–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ncr.2007.0008.

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Young, Mary. "Review: Home To Stay: Asian American Women's Fiction by Sylvia Watanabe and Carol Bruchac." Explorations in Ethnic Studies ESS-12, no. 1 (August 1, 1992): 64–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ess.1992.12.1.64.

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Bascara, V. "The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction; The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies: Autonomy and Representation in the University." American Literature 83, no. 2 (January 1, 2011): 468–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266207.

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Harrison-Kahan, L. "The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction. Caroline Rody. * Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing. Cathy J. Schlund-Vials." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 38, no. 1 (February 27, 2013): 179–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mls004.

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O. Pagan, Nicholas. "Review: Sze-Wei Ang, The State of Race: Asian/American Fiction after World War II." Southeast Asian Review of English 57, no. 1 (July 28, 2020): 245–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol57no1.22.

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de Jesús, Melinda L. "‘Two's company, three's a crowd?”;: Reading interracial romance in contemporary Asian American young adult fiction." Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory 12, no. 3 (January 2001): 313–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10436920108580294.

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Paredes, Veronica. "Embodying the Background." Feminist Media Histories 6, no. 4 (2020): 68–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2020.6.4.68.

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In the summer of 1943, race riots stirred waves of violence across several US cities, the largest taking place in Detroit, Harlem, and Los Angeles. During wartime, patriotic anger was aimed not only outward at the Axis powers, but also inward at US citizens. This article focuses on Los Angeles’s Zoot Suit Riots, exploring how in a surprising number of accounts of the alleged riot, movie theaters serve as backgrounds alongside white, Mexican American, African American, and Asian American women, who appear as minor, nameless characters. Finding instances in work from Beatrice Griffith and Carey McWilliams, in fiction from Fernando Alegría and Chester Himes, and in the canonical Chicano films Zoot Suit (1981) and American Me (1992), the article traces the supporting roles women and movie theaters serve in these diverse narratives, and how both come to visually and discursively represent dangerous wartime boundaries.

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Hayford, Charles. "Editor's Introduction to Part Two, "Crossing the Rivers of Time and Oceans of Culture: The Uses of Film in American-East Asian Relations"." Journal of American-East Asian Relations 18, no. 1 (2011): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187656111x582937.

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AbstractThe Editor's Introduction to Part One of this two-part theme issue described the articles and offered thoughts on ways of looking at film in American-East Asian relations. This essay, the Introduction to Part Two, weighs the rewards and problems of using fiction film to represent history and other cultures. The dilemma inherent in fiction is that if we portray the past and foreign cultures as being "just like us," we gain immediacy and connection, but at the cost of ignoring cultural difference and historical change. On the other hand, if we respect the "strangeness of the past," we gain authenticity, analytic truth, and responsibility but invite sterility, academic solipsism, and isolation from the public. The essay concludes with a list of questions on how to learn about art, politics, and business when we compare film cultures and national projects across the Pacific.

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Cicholewski, Alena. "Empathy as an Answer to Challenges of the Anthropocene in Asian American Young Adult Science Fiction." Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal 10, no. 2 (March 28, 2023): 5–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v10i2.958.

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This article suggests that Malinda Lo’s Adaptation duology (2012-2013) and Cindy Pon’s Want duology (2017-2019) represent empathy as a desirable answer to challenges of the Anthropocene. Set in near-future Taipei, Want follows a group of teenagers who eventually become militant environmental activists. The teenage protagonists’ capacity for empathy distinguishes them from the villainous antagonist and makes them likeable for the readers despite their violent tactics. Lo’s duology features two teenagers who are turned into human/alien hybrids by extra-terrestrial scientists after a nearly fatal car accident. The procedure equips the protagonists not only with an accelerated healing ability, but also gives them access to other people’s emotions through touch. Although the teenagers at first experience their newfound superpowers as a burden, they slowly realise their significant potential for changing humanity for the better. My article will combine close readings from the novels with research from ecopedagogy to explore in how far novels like Lo’s Adaptation and Pon’s Want can encourage readers to treat their fellow human beings as well as more-than-human life forms with more empathy.

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Kimak, Izabella. "On geographical and metaphorical (fault) lines: Immigration, acculturation and generation gap in South Asian American women’s fiction." Roczniki Humanistyczne 63, no. 11 (2015): 235–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rh.2015.63.11-14.

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Partridge, J. F. L. "Review Essay: Adoption, Interracial Marriage, and Mixed-Race Babies: The New America in Recent Asian American Fiction." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 30, no. 2 (June 1, 2005): 242–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/30.2.242.

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HEFFLEY, MIKE. "“O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing”: Anthony Braxton's Speculative Musics." Journal of the Society for American Music 2, no. 2 (May 2008): 203–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1752196308080073.

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AbstractAnthony Braxton's opera Trillium R (1991): Shala Fears for the Poor is examined macroscopically, microscopically, and theoretically for its resonances with both spoken and written language. The latter is posited as an ur-technology spawning six more specialized technologies tropes, through which the macroscopic survey unfolds. Braxton's music is conflated with the academic discourse of “speculative musicology” and the genre of “speculative fiction,” the literary arena of most fertile explorations of technological potential. The microscopic study examines the relationship between Braxton's libretto and music in the score, and that between the determinate and indeterminate in both, as the techne (tool) of its effectiveness. Finally, the article explains Braxton's work through its European, African, Asian, and Native American influences.

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Smith, Jacob. "Representing Themselves: Contesting Western Representations of Minoritized Communities in the Poetry of Danez Smith, Franny Choi, and Tommy Pico." Oregon Undergraduate Research Journal 20, no. 2 (November 16, 2022): 119–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.5399/uo/ourj/20.2.9.

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Over time, dominant world powers like the United States have levied the tool of definition to dehumanize, delegitimatize, and disempower certain peoples. How society defines what is normal vs. abnormal, human vs. inhuman, positive vs. negative, and so on has the potential to privilege certain groups over others who are defined as worse in some way. However, dominant cultures do not hold the power of definition exclusively. In recent years, individuals from minoritized communities have taken to defining their identities independently of their dominant culture’s representation of them after fighting for and winning certain rights and liberties that they had previous been denied. In particular, some poets from minoritized communities within the United States have made self-identification central to their works. They do this by examining the ingrained misrepresentation of minoritized communities—located in the numerous forms of American mass media (television, film, literature, news, etc.)—and unmasking the embedded systems of oppression that pervade those misrepresentations. This essay analyzes a collection of poetry from three contemporary poets of minoritized communities within the United States: Danez Smith’s Don’t Call Us Dead, Franny Choi’s Soft Science, and Tommy Pico’s Nature Poem. In each of their collections, the poets resist American media’s misrepresentations of their specific identity by asserting their own experiences and identities as a point of direct contrast. Specifically, Danez Smith resists American media’s obsession with the deaths of contemporary Black people by celebrating Black life; Franny Choi addresses American media’s dehumanization of Asian-descended peoples by contesting the Asian-robot archetype from American science fiction; and Tommy Pico resists the historical ecological Indian stereotype by reimagining the nature poem. In all three of their collections, the poets take up the powerful weapon of language to both reject the false identities the United States has forced upon them and represent themselves in a way that is unadulterated by American media.

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Leonard, Karen. "Sandhya Shukla. India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003." Comparative Studies in Society and History 47, no. 3 (July 2005): 670–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s001041750524029x.

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Sandhya Shukla has written a highly interdisciplinary comparison of Indian diasporic cultures in Britain and the United States. Specializing in Anthropology and Asian American Studies, she is particularly strong on historical and literary text analysis. She says, “The relational aspects of a range of texts and experiences, which include historical narratives, cultural organizations, autobiography and fiction, musical performance and films, are of paramount importance in this critical ethnography” (20). Contending that the Indian diaspora confronts “a simultaneous nationalism and internationalism,” she is celebratory about India and “formations of Indianness,” and uses phrases like “amazing force” and “wildly multicultural” (17). Her exploration shows “the tremendous impulse to multiple nationality that Indianness abroad has made visible” (14) and, “the amazing persistence of Indian cultures in so many places” (22).

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A. Saleema Kathoon and J. Ahamed Meeran. "Exploring the Diasporic Consciousness in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Sister of My Heart." Shanlax International Journal of English 12, S1-Dec (December 14, 2023): 440–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/rtdh.v12is1-dec.138.

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an acclaimed Indian American writer known for her dazzling investigation of South Asian immigrant experiences. Divakaruni is a famous diasporic writer with a refined and modern sensibility whose contribution to the diasporic fiction is great and unique. Divakaruni beautifully presents the matrix of diasporic consciousness like nostalgia, loneliness, rootlessness, alienation, cultural conflict, questioning, etc., in her novels. Her writing affirms that diaspora is not merely scattering or dispersion but a matrix of consciousness that encompasses various conflicting characteristics. Being an immigrant in USA, Divakaruni seems to capture the experiences of the Indian immigrants with all its colours. This article attempts to explore the diasporic consciousness in the work of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Sister of My Heart.

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Jerng, Mark C. "Nowhere in Particular: Perceiving Race, Chang-rae Lee’s Aloft, and the Question of Asian American Fiction." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 56, no. 1 (2010): 183–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.1658.

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Khan, Aisha. "American religion: diaspora and syncretism from Old World to New." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 77, no. 1-2 (January 1, 2003): 105–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002531.

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[First paragraph]Nation Dance: Religion, Identity, and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean. PATRICK TAYLOR (ed.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. x +220 pp. (Paper US$ 19.95)Translating Kali 's Feast: The Goddess in Indo-Caribbean Ritual and Fiction. STEPHANOS STEPHANIDES with KARNA SINGH. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000. xii + 200 pp. (Paper US$ 19.00)Between Babel and Pentecost: Transnational Pentecostalism in Africa and Latin America. ANDRÉ CORTEN & RUTH MARSHALL-FRATANI (eds.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. 270 pp. (Paper US$ 22.95)Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religions. STEPHEN D. GLAZIER (ed.). New York: Routledge, 2001. xx + 452 pp. (Cloth US$ 125.00)As paradigms and perspectives change within and across academie disciplines, certain motifs remain at the crux of our inquiries. Evident in these four new works on African and New World African and South Asian religions are two motifs that have long defined the Caribbean: the relationship between cultural transformation and cultural continuity, and that between cultural diversity and cultural commonality. In approaching religion from such revisionist sites as poststructuralism, diaspora, hybridity, and creolization, however, the works reviewed here attempt to move toward new and more productive ways of thinking about cultures and histories in the Americas. In the process, other questions arise. Particularly, can what are essentially redirected language and methodologies in the spirit of postmodern interventions teil us more about local interpretation, experience, and agency among Caribbean, African American, and African peoples than can more traditional approaches? While it is up to individual readers to decide this for themselves, my own feeling is that it is altogether a good thing that these works still echo long-standing conundrums: the Herskovits/Frazier debate over cultural origins, the tensions of assimilation in "plural societies," and the significance of religion in everyday life. Perhaps one of the most important lessons that research in the Caribbean has for broader arenas of scholarship is that foundational questions are tenacious even in the face of paradigm shifts, yet can always generate new modes of inquiry, defying intellectual closure and neat resolution.

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Liaqat, Qurratulaen. "South Asian Transhumanist Posthuman Ontologies: The Relationship between Vehicle Art and Mind Uploading in Uzma Aslam Khan’s Trespassing." Journal of Posthuman Studies 6, no. 1 (June 2022): 33–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jpoststud.6.1.0033.

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Abstract One possible way to decolonize the posthuman field of literary criticism is to find possible stylistic and thematic affinities between the literatures from the less technologically advanced regions such as South Asia and mainstream Euro-American science fiction. This article invites and affirms alternative ways of perceiving and comprehending the transhumanist posthuman paradigms from the technologically underdeveloped world (South Asia) through a critically informed analysis of the motifs, symbols, and characters in the Pakistani writer Uzma Aslam Khan’s Anglophone novel Trespassing (2003). It argues that the nonhuman agency of truck art in Trespassing can be interpreted as a metaphor for a possible local technique for consciousness uploading. By applying the theoretical framework of transhumanist/posthumanist literary theory, this article demonstrates that the depiction of truck art in the novel can be analyzed as an analogy for the transhumanist posthuman dream of whole brain emulation.

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Badruddoja, Roksana. "“Third World Woman,” Family, and Marriage: South Asian Diasporic Fiction As a Site For Consolidation of the American Nation-State." International Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies 10, no. 1 (2015): 35–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2327-008x/cgp/v10i01/53206.

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GOLDSTEIN, DAVID S. "Helena Grice, Asian American Fiction, History and Life Writing (London: Routledge, 2009, $95.00). Pp. 156. isbn978 0 415 38475 9." Journal of American Studies 44, no. 4 (November 2010): 824–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875810001957.

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Badruddoja, Roksana. "“Third World Woman,” Family, and Marriage: South Asian Diasporic Fiction as a Site for Consolidation of the American Nation-state." South Asian Review 35, no. 2 (October 2014): 81–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2014.11932972.

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Zubair, Hassan Bin, and Nighat Ahmed. "Exploring Bicultural Ambivalence in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake: Representational Diasporic Identities in Indian Anglophone Fiction." International Journal of English Linguistics 8, no. 6 (July 29, 2018): 98. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v8n6p98.

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This paper explores the cultural ambivalence and bicultural identity issues in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake. This Indian Anglophone novel carries different diasporic sensibilities. Issues of marriage and culture are very prominent with the importance of family relationships in the context of immigrant feelings and loss of identity. Unconditional love and acceptance of family relations emerge victorious at the end of the narrative. The writer shares the second generation migrant experience since they were born to parents who immigrated and settled to United States. While migrants from some of the Asian states, mainly those characterized by most recent immigrant waves, have really worse socio-economic situation than average immigrants; Indians people are rather prosperous minorities. Theories presented by Bhabha, Clifford and Appadurai about culture and diaspora support this research. Lahiri do not portray immigrants’ lives as a struggle to survive but rather concentrate on their affiliation to the country into which they arrived and also on their relationship with their American-born children. This research is helpful to know about the concerns associated with the liminal space and issues related to identity loss of first and second generations and living with a bicultural identity.

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