This paper ponders relations between Asia and its diasporas other than those of popular binary patterns of past Asia and present diasporas. Contemplating transnational connectivities newly enabled in the age of globalization, the paper examines the possibilities of diasporic Asians and Asian Americans’ horizontal and circular encounters, in both temporal and spatial senses, not with Asia as the supposed origin/past, but with constantly changing present Asia. Karen Tei Yamashita’s Circle K Cycles is analyzed as a text that presents such possibilities of diasporic/Asian/American writers’ imaginative encounters with Asia as its stories circle through ever changing heterogeneous locations of diasporic/Asian Americas and Asia. The economic inequalities and discrimination Japanese Brazilian dekasegi workers experience in Japan are juxtaposed with Japanese American Yamashita’s relatively comfortable and voluntary transnational experience. In the process, Yamshita succeeds in presenting heterogeneous transnational movements of different diasporic groups in the age of globalization. While some national group’s movements are not so much voluntary as the movements are governed by global economics, political decisions of nation-states, and the ideology of race, others can freely choose the transnational movements as a way of exploring new world. Despite the inequality and different experiences, the world created in Circle K Cycles presents intriguing flows and mixtures of heterogenous individuals and their cultures, allowing readers to experience imaginary multiple border crossings across Brazil, America, and Japan.
목차
I. Introduction II. Popular Asian Immigrant and Transnational Narrative Patterns III. Emerging "Transnational Connectivities" of the New Century IV. Asian Americas Turning To Hybrid Asia: Karen Tei Yamashita's Circle K Cycles Works Cited Abstract
키워드
카렌 타이 야마시타『써클 케이 싸이클스』초국가적 아시아계 미국문학디아스포릭 아시아계 미국문학Karen Tei YamashitaCircle K CyclesTransnational Asian American LiteratureDiasporic Asian American Literature
한국중앙영어영문학회 [The Jungang English Language And Literature Association Of Korea]
설립연도
1968
분야
인문학>영어와문학
소개
본 학회는 영미어문학의 학술연구와 이에 부합하는 아래의 사업을 기획 수행하며,
또한 회원 상호간의 친목을 도모함을 목적으로 한다.
1. 학회지 발간
2. 연구 발표회, 강연회, 공동연구
3. 영미어문학 관련 도서출판
4. 영미어문학 관계 도서 및 자료의 모집 및 비치
5. 기타 본회의 목적 달성에 필요한 사업
간행물
간행물명
영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]