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This paper aims at rewriting the history of early Asian American people in terms of diaspora. In doing thus, I will highlight the diasporic nature of early Asian Americans, that is, their imaginary relationship with, and their cultural exchange with, Asia—an important but repressed part of Asian American subjectivity. First of all, I will define early Asian Americans as the “diaspora of paranoia” with all its Lacanian connotation. Here, the term paranoia does not refer to a particular pathological condition; it rather foregrounds the nature of early Asian immigrants' peculiar way of imagining their homelands. That is to say, for the early Asian Americans, multiplicity of one's identity in a socially symbolic order is subsumed under a single signifier, that is, Asia. This paranoiac relationship with their homelands is structured and constructed by institutional and cultural racism of the US that barred Asians from becoming legitimate citizens of US, on the one hand, and the physical and psychical distance from their homeland that foreclosed the possibility of their ultimate return, on the other. Furthermore, early Asian Americans' paranoiac relationship with Asia gave rise to a peculiar kind of structure of feeling in their culture, which I will define as “aspiration to impossible authenticity.” Of course, there is no such thing as authenticity. Nevertheless, the imagined nature of their relationship with Asia and the physical distance from it necessarily leads them to a tragic self-knowledge that they can never remain as an authentic Asian subject. I will show how this peculiar kind of structure of feeling shapes the early Asian American life and culture through a close reading of Bienvenido's short story “Scent of Apples” which vividly encapsulates early Filipino Americans' life.

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우연적 미국인
 19세기말 인종질서의 양극화와 초기 아시아계 미국인의 기원
 흑/백의 중간자
 이방인 그리고 사회적 비체화
 아시아로의 회귀와 디아스포라 되기
 불가능한 진정성을 향한 열망
 초기 아시아계 이민자의 삶의 기록「사과향기」
 진정성의 부재 그리고 아시아계 미국인
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• 임경규 [ Kyeog-Kyu Im | 조선대학교 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학21 [English21]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1738-4052

• 수록기간

  1967~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820