Ming-Bao Yue BEYOND ETHNICITY, INTO EQUALITY Re-thinking hybridity and transnationalism in a local play from Hawai‘i
Ming-Bao Yue BEYOND ETHNICITY, INTO EQUALITY Re-thinking hybridity and transnationalism in a local play from Hawai‘i
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岳明宝 超越种族，进入平等 重新思考夏威夷当地戏剧中的混杂性和跨国主义
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2009
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G. Colasurdo
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本文探讨了如何从身份政治的新自由主义话语中拯救混杂和跨国主义的概念，并将其拯救为一个考虑到历史唯物主义的批判性文化研究项目。本文以夏威夷多元族群背景下的“基于地方的认同概念”为重点，并特别提到“地方华人意识”的混合和跨国形成，认为要理解夏威夷复杂的地方华人认同形成，就需要沿着王爱华的“嵌入式公民”概念，亚当·麦基翁（Adam McKeon）对离散网络关系的强调，以及伊恩·昂（Ien Ang）将混杂性定义为“复杂的纠缠”和“差异中的团结”。将这些概念上的区别应用于对当地剧作家达雷尔·卢姆的著名戏剧《有点像你》的仔细阅读，本文表明，除了对夏威夷种族间婚姻和混血身份的幽默（尽管熟悉）描绘之外，这出戏实际上为我们提供了宝贵的洞察种族和社会的复杂纠缠，这些岛屿上的散居劳工和网络关系造成的经济不平等。在最后的分析中，本文提出了一个关键的跨国主义，试图揭示，而不是掩盖，经济不平等和社会不公正的一部分，更大的知识生产的伦理知识的承诺。
This paper examines how the concepts of hybridity and transnationalism can be salvaged from a neo-liberal discourse of identity politics and rescued for a critical Cultural Studies project that takes into account historical materialism. Focusing on a ‘place-based notion of identity’ in the context of Hawai‘i’s diverse ethnic population, and with specific reference to the hybrid and transnational formation of a ‘local Chinese consciousness’, the paper argues that understanding the complex local Chinese identity formation in Hawai‘i requires re-conceptualizing hybridity and diasporic consciousness along the lines of Aihwa Ong’s notion of ‘embedded citizenship’, Adam McKeon’s emphasis on diasporic network relations, and Ien Ang’s definition of hybridity as denoting ‘complicated entanglement’ and ‘togetherness-in-difference’. Applying these conceptual distinctions to a careful reading of the celebrated play, ‘A Little Bit Like You’, by local playwright Darrell Lum, the paper shows that beyond the humorous, albeit familiar, portrayal of interethnic marriage and hybrid identity in Hawai‘i, the play actually offers us invaluable insight into the complex entanglement of ethnicity and socio-economic inequality as a result of diasporic labor and network relations in the islands. In the final analysis then, this paper makes a case for a critical transnationalism that seeks to reveal, rather than conceal, economic inequality and social injustice as part of a larger intellectual commitment to an ethics of knowledge production.