“‘Between Ownership and the Highway’: Property, Persons, and Freeways in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange” examines the place of the Los Angeles freeway system in the creation and maintenance of the egalitarian communities imagined in the novel. As I show, the freeway serves as an instrument for the economic growth, securitization, and increased powers of the state. Thus, in misusing the freeway, the migrants, narcotraffickers, and homeless stage a resistance to the freeway as metonym for modernity, efficiency, progress, and economic advancement. However, given that the threat posed by the ascendance of the homeless in particular must be understood through discourses regarding the public threat of unlawful migration and narcotrafficking, the homeless represent a population critical both to unmaking the extant state and replacing it with a more equitable society. I reanimate discussions of the novel by proposing that rather than examine transnational migration, and the mutations of time and space figured so prominently in the text as the novel's primary mode of critique, scholars instead turn their attention to the homeless encampment atop the LA freeway system as the boldest insight into how a new political system might be conceived.

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“所有权与公路之间”：Karen Tei Yamashita 橙热带地区的财产、人员和高速公路

“'所有权与公路之间'：Karen Tei Yamashita 的奥兰治热带地区的财产、人员和高速公路”考察了洛杉矶高速公路系统在小说中想象的平等主义社区的创建和维护中的地位。正如我所展示的，高速公路是促进经济增长、证券化和增强国家权力的工具。因此，在滥用高速公路的过程中，移民、毒贩和无家可归者对高速公路作为现代性、效率、进步和经济进步的代名词进行了抵制。然而，鉴于必须通过有关非法移民和毒品贩运的公共威胁的论述来理解无家可归者的崛起所带来的威胁，无家可归者代表了对破坏现存国家和用​​更公平的社会取而代之至关重要的人口。我提出，与其研究跨国移民，而且时间和空间的变化在文本中作为小说的主要批评模式如此突出，我提出了对小说的讨论，而是将他们的注意力转向洛杉矶高速公路系统顶部的无家可归者营地。作为对如何构想新政治体系的最大胆的见解。