The semblance of identity : aesthetic mediation in Asian American literature
著者
書誌事項
The semblance of identity : aesthetic mediation in Asian American literature
（Asian America）
Stanford University Press, c2012
- : cloth
大学図書館所蔵 全6件
注記
Includes bibliographical references p. [173]-186 and index
収録内容
- The strange smell of truth : ethnicity, translation, and realism in the Cold War writings of Eileen Chang
- The ironic temporalities of cultural nationalism
- Sound and the subject in The woman warrior and Tripmaster monkey
- Form giving and the remains of identity in A gesture life
- Semblance, shame, and the work of comparison
- Conclusion : the difference Asian America makes
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The history of Asian American literature reveals the ongoing attempt to work through the fraught relationship between identity politics and literary representation. This relationship is especially evident in literary works which claim that their content represents the socio-historical world. The Semblance of Identityargues that the reframing of the field as a critical, rather than identity-based, project nonetheless continues to rely on the logics of identity.
Drawing on the writings of philosopher and literary critic Georg Lukacs, Christopher Lee identifies a persistent composite figure that he calls the "idealized critical subject," which provides coherence to oppositional knowledge projects and political practices. He reframes identity as an aesthetic figure that tries to articulate the subjective conditions for knowledge. Harnessing Theodor Adorno's notion of aesthetic semblance, Lee offers an alternative account of identity as a figure akin to modern artwork. Like art, Lee argues, identity provides access to imagined worlds that in turn wage a critique of ongoing histories and realities of racialization.
This book assembles a transnational archive of literary texts by Eileen Chang, Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Chang-rae Lee, Michael Ondaatje, and Jose Garcia Villa, revealing the intersections of subjectivity and representation, and drawing our attention to their limits.
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