The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives
The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives
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亚洲北美叙事中可见的政治
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10.3138/9781442682122
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2004
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E. Ty
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埃莉诺·泰（Eleanor Ty）审视了九个亚裔加拿大人和亚裔美国人的叙述，探讨了作者如何在主流文化赋予他们的意识形态、想象力和话语空间中赋予自己权力，代表差异，并重新书写他们作为“可见少数群体”的身份。亚裔北美人每天都以各种方式与“胎记”进行谈判，他们共同的身体特征使他们在法律、社会和文化上成为可见的局外人，但矛盾的是，他们在主流历史和文化中却是看不见的。泰认为，诸如丹尼斯·庄（Denise Chong）、雪莉·林玉莲（Shirley Geok-lin Lim）和韦森·蔡（Wayson Choy）等作家根据他们连在一起的生活中的景象、气味、衣着和其他特征，重新塑造了他们身体的标记，并挑战了人们对差异的普遍看法。其他人，如电影制片人米娜·岑（Mina Shum）以及作家比恩维尼多·桑托斯（Bienvenido Santos）和后藤博美（Hiromi Goto），则对亚裔北美主题在媒体和日常语言中的表现和构建方式提出了挑战。通过基于每部作品的社会历史背景的仔细阅读，泰研究了不同作家和电影制片人在与主流文化的目光相遇时的技巧，以及他们对通常与东方化、可见身体相关的假设和意义的反应。
Examining nine Asian Canadian and Asian American narratives, Eleanor Ty explores how authors empower themselves, represent differences, and re-script their identities as 'visible minorities' within the ideological, imaginative, and discursive space given to them by dominant culture. In various ways, Asian North Americans negotiate daily with 'birthmarks,' their shared physical features marking them legally, socially, and culturally as visible outsiders, and paradoxically, as invisible to mainstream history and culture. Ty argues that writers such as Denise Chong, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, and Wayson Choy recast the marks of their bodies and challenge common perceptions of difference based on the sights, smells, dress, and other characteristics of their hyphenated lives. Others, like filmmaker Mina Shum and writers Bienvenido Santos and Hiromi Goto, challenge the means by which Asian North American subjects are represented and constructed in the media and in everyday language. Through close readings grounded in the socio-historical context of each work, Ty studies the techniques of various authors and filmmakers in their meeting of the gaze of dominant culture and their response to the assumptions and meanings commonly associated with Orientalized, visible bodies.