American Literature (1993), Sauling Cynthia Wong identifies the trope of the Asian American racial shadow, explaining that a shadow character is frequently included in Asian American fiction as a way for “host characters” to project unwanted racialized aspects of themselves onto a character who is secondary to them (78). Wong explains, “By projecting undesirable ‘Asianness’ outward onto a double—what I term a racial shadow—one renders alien what is, in fact, literally inalienable, thereby disowning and distancing it” (78). Wong observes, “[T]here are a convincing number of episodes or Marilyn Chin’s Revenge: Rewriting the Racial Shadow Alison Graham-Bertolini

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玛丽莲钦的复仇：改写种族阴影

美国文学 (1993)，Sauling Cynthia Wong 确定了亚裔美国人种族阴影的比喻，解释说亚裔美国人小说中经常包含一个影子角色，作为“主人公”将自己不需要的种族化方面投射到一个角色身上的一种方式是次要的（78）。Wong 解释说，“通过将不受欢迎的‘亚洲性’向外投射到一个替身上——我称之为种族阴影——一个人将实际上不可剥夺的东西变成了异类，从而拒绝承认并疏远它”（78）。Wong 观察到，“[T] 这里有令人信服的情节或玛丽莲钦的复仇：重写种族阴影艾莉森格雷厄姆 - 贝托里尼