Abstract

Since 1965, Asian American authors have been key mediators of science fictionality, defined as a postwar fantasy that associates endless, industrial-led economic expansion with racialized groups of upwardly mobile professionals. This status is a consequence of the occupational concentration of Asian immigrants into professional-managerial careers, especially in scientific and technical fields: a phenomenon that can be traced back to the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act. Reading Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior (1976) along with the debut works of recent Chinese American women writers, including Ling Ma’s Severance (2018), this article describes a dialectic of science fictionality and post-65 Asian American literature in which the latter develops autopoetic tendencies that register occupational concentration in genre, theme, characterization, and trope. This reorientation of post-65 Asian American literary history to the material conditions of science fictionality, rather than ethnic self-expression, has implications not only for understanding that history but also for generalized periodizations of contemporary US literature like the “genre turn,” which risk eliding the specificity of minority literary histories.

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科幻小说与65后的亚裔美国人文学

摘要

自1965年以来，亚裔美国人的作家一直是科幻小说的主要调解人，科幻小说被定义为战后的幻想，它将无止境的，工业主导的经济扩张与种族化的向上移动的专业人员群体联系在一起。这种身份的出现是由于亚洲移民的职业集中于专业管理职业，特别是在科学和技术领域：这种现象可以追溯到1965年的《移民和国籍法》。朗读洪金斯顿的《女战士》（1976），以及最近华裔美国女作家的处女作，包括马玲的《遣散费》。（2018），本文描述了科幻小说的辩证法和65岁后的亚裔美国人文学，其中后者发展出具有自律倾向的倾向，这些倾向记录了职业集中在体裁，主题，特征和叙事上。65年后亚裔美国人文学史对科幻小说的物质条件而不是种族自我表达的重新定位，不仅对理解历史有影响，而且对当代美国文学的广义分期（如“体裁转向”）也有影响。冒着消除少数民族文学史特殊性的风险。