Abstract

This article introduces the concept of a transpacific settler colonial condition, a term which captures the interconnected nature of Indigenous struggles against settler colonialism across the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific Islands, given shared histories of American empire and military violence. In order to historicize the transpacific settler colonial condition's coarticulation with Asian American political subjectivity, ever since the Asian American Movement of the Long Sixties, this article turns to two works of Asian American historical fiction: Shawn Wong's Homebase (1979), one of the first self-identified works of Asian American literature, and Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer (2015), a contemporary best-selling novel. Both texts call attention to the interconnected nature of Indigenous sovereignty struggles across the continental United States, Guam, and Vietnam and grapple with the vexed positionality of Asian American subjects who at times uphold transpacific settler colonialism and at other times resist it. The article ends with a call for transpacific decolonization via a feminist refugee epistemology.

中文翻译：

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跨太平洋定居者殖民地条件的历史化：黄肖恩（Shawn Wong）的故乡和越南阮阮（Thanh Nguyen）的《同情者》中的亚洲土著关系

摘要

本文介绍了跨太平洋定居者殖民地条件的概念，该术语反映了美洲，亚洲和太平洋岛屿上针对定居者殖民主义的原住民斗争的相互联系的性质，这要归功于美国帝国和军事暴力的共同历史。自从六十年代的亚裔美国人运动以来，为了使跨太平洋定居者殖民地状况与亚裔美国人的政治主观性之间的相互关系历史化，本文转向亚裔美国人的两个历史小说作品：黄少文的《本垒打》（1979年）亚裔美国人文学的自我认同的作品，以及越南Thanh Nguyen的《同情者》（2015年），当代畅销小说。两种文本都提请注意横跨美国大陆，关岛和越南的土著人民主权斗争的相互联系的性质，并与亚裔美国人的烦恼定位相抵触，亚裔美国人有时坚持跨太平洋定居者殖民主义，而在其他时候则反对这种殖民主义。文章最后呼吁通过女权主义难民认识论进行跨太平洋非殖民化。