Review of Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific: Imperialism's Racial Justice and Its Fugitives
Review of Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific: Imperialism's Racial Justice and Its Fugitives
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黑太平洋奇果回顾:帝国主义的种族正义及其逃亡者
DOI:
10.1093/jahist/jax496
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发表时间:
2018
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
Taketani Etsuko
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Vince Schleitwiler’s bold, revisionary study initiates readers into recognizable but uncharted transpacific terrain in African American and Asian American literatures. Schleitwiler’s “transpacific” does not allude to an oceanic space or time frame, but rather to an “orientation”—“a kind of tilting of space and time”(p. 3). Sometimes, this spreads out from Georgia to Luzon via Hong Kong, and at other times, it is compressed between two towns in the Mississippi Delta. The “black Pacific” moniker is reserved for “a specific lure” within the terrain that gravitates toward seemingly incompatible forces represented by two black icons from the Asia-Pacific region, Barack Obama and King Kong; one represents hope for racial justice and multiculturalism, while the other represents sexualized violence and lynching, which appear as the antithesis of racial justice. Schleitwiler’s main aim is to illuminate what he calls “imperialism’s racial justice” and to argue that this “justice”“could be sustained only through an ongoing training of perception in an aesthetics of racial terror”(pp.3, 4, emphasis in original). Organized into three parts and five chapters, the book offers nuanced readings of “the literatures that take form and flight within the fissures of imperialism’s racial justice” to study race across US transpacific domains (p. 4). Less interested in geographically fixed units with distinct borders than in migrations,