Abstract

Read together, Patricia Chu’s Where I have Never Been (2019), Jinah Kim’s Postcolonial Grief (2019), Sze Wei Ang’s The State of Race (2019), and Janna Odabas’s The Ghosts Within (2018) allow for a review of the state and meaning of diaspora and diasporic frames of analysis in Asian American literary and cultural criticism. Approaching these books through the 1990s debate on minority nationalism in Asian American studies shows one prominent direction that critical engagements with transnationalism have taken. While postcolonialism’s place in the 1990s debate on transnationalism and Asian America was tenuous at best, these books suggest that it has become a crucial part of envisioning the critical work diasporic Asian American culture can do. In these books, diasporic frames of analysis lead to recognizing Asian American culture as a site where the unresolved and unaccounted for violence of US nationalism and globalization surfaces and challenges to dominant ideas of race and nation appear. Both as method of inquiry and as historical understanding of twentieth-century US–Asian relations, postcolonialism in these books shows the critical potential of diaspora for Asian America.

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民族，散居和亚裔美国人文学

摘要

一起阅读Patricia Chu的《我从未去过的地方》（2019），Jinah Kim的后殖民悲痛（2019），Sze Wei Ang的《种族状况》（2019）和Janna Odabas的《内心的幽灵》。（2018）允许对亚裔美国人文学和文化批评中散居和流散分析框架的状态和意义进行回顾。通过1990年代亚裔美国人研究中关于少数民族民族主义的辩论来探讨这些书，这表明与跨国主义的批判性接触已朝着一个重要方向发展。尽管后殖民主义在1990年代关于跨国主义和亚美的辩论中的地位充其量是微不足道的，但这些书表明，它已成为设想流离失所的亚裔美国人文化可以做的关键工作的重要组成部分。在这些书中，散逸的分析框架导致人们认识到亚裔美国人文化是一个未解决和无法解释的美国民族主义暴力和全球化表面以及对种族和民族主导思想的挑战出现的地方。