ABSTRACT

This paper proposes to use inter-Asian methodologies to reread Asian Canadian Studies. As an intellectual and political project, Asian Canadian Studies has largely been constituted through its responses to the Canadian nation-state and anti-racism alliances but has failed to seriously engage with Asia as a critical problematic. Informed by theories and practices of inter-referencing developed through Inter-Asia critique, we reconsider the specific pressures, local debates, and historical moments that have produced the field's central arguments and reframe the field as a series of localized reference points in dialogue with each other as well as with Asia. We conclude by turning to Madeleine Thien's novel Dogs at the Perimeter in order to ask what it might mean to localize Asian Canadian Studies and reposition it as part of a transpacific rather than nation-based formation.

摘要

本文建议使用亚洲间方法重新阅读加拿大亚裔研究。作为一项智力和政治项目，亚洲加拿大研究很大程度上是通过其对加拿大民族国家和反种族主义联盟的回应而构成的，但作为严重的问题，它并未认真地与亚洲接触。借助通过亚洲间批评发展的相互参照的理论和实践，我们重新考虑了产生该领域中心论点的特定压力，当地辩论和历史时刻，并将该领域重新构筑为一系列本地化的参考点，与每个国家进行对话其他以及亚洲。最后，我们转向玛德琳·蒂恩的小说《外围的狗》 为了询问本地化加拿大亚裔研究并将其重新定位为跨太平洋而非基于国家的形式的一部分可能意味着什么。