Transpacific American Literature: An Aesthetics of Memories

我的博士论文《历史感：1945年以来美国亚太地区的殖民记忆、艺术作品和异质社区》总结了该项目的成果，并于2012年提交给了南加州大学。总的来说，该项目试图批判性地介入当前的后殖民研究框架，通过强调美学形式和中介在开放迄今为止不存在的“社区”形式中所起的作用，这些形式不能被当前支配主体形成的规范（主体化）所包含。为此，本研究分析了经常被归类为“亚洲人”或“盎格鲁人”的作家和艺术家，并寻找这些作家/艺术家在努力实例化记忆的“部分”时，如何创造性地、持续地抵制种族化和主体化的方式。

The result of the project has been summarized in my doctoral dissertation, “Senses of History: Colonial Memories, Works of Art, and Heterogeneous Community in America’s Asia-Pacific since 1945” which was submitted to the University of Southern California in 2012. Overall, the project attempted to critically intervene into the current frame of postcolonial studies by foregrounding the role aesthetic forms and mediations play in opening up heretofore non-existent forms of “community” that cannot be subsumed by currently existing norms governing subject formation (subjectivation). To that end, this study analyzed authors and artists who have often been classified as “Asian” or “Anglo” and sought the ways in which these authors/artists creatively and persistently resisted such terms of racialization and subectivation in their efforts to instantiate a “partage” of memories.