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This paper considers an Asian American renarration of the Little House legacy, examining how the Asian American readership engages with Laura Ingalls Wilder’s frontier narrative and its predominantly white and racially demarcated prairie. The Asian American presence has long been marginalized in the Midwest, and also being unseen in relation to Wilder’s literary legacy. While the trope of invisibility has haunted the Asian American psyche in historical, social, and literary terms, the Midwestern Asian American child readers of the Little House books live their invisibility within and outside of the text. Their implicit hope for solidarity and sense of belonging is betrayed when they realize Wilder’s prairie is a territory granted to the children of white settlers. Bich Minh Nguyen grew up as an avid Wilder reader in the Midwest, and Stealing Buddha’s Dinner and Pioneer Girl are her retellings of and intertextual responses to Wilder’s legacy. Stealing Buddha’s Dinner vividly discloses the repressed anxiety experienced by a young Asian American Midwestern reader, revealing ambivalent emotions of intimacy, betrayal, and denial toward the Little House books. Pioneer Girl, on the other hand, makes a more conscious claim of identity and belonging, claiming the Midwest and America by way of appropriating Wilder’s narrative. Nguyen’s works evince that the Little House books’ non-interpellation of Asian Americans deters neither their engagement with nor their claiming of Asian American space within the books’ legacy. What surfaces is the undeniable presence they establish within the American classic canon’s genealogy.

목차

I. 서론 : 『초원의 집』 연작과 아시아계 미국인의 소외
II. 미 중서부 아시아계 여아의 백인문학 독서 기록
III. 서사 줍기의 실패 : 아시아계 미국인 독자와 와일더의 백색서사
IV. 새로운 중서부 서사의 시작
V. 결론 : 백인 미국문학의 유산과 아시아계 미국인 독자의 성장
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• 오승아 [ Seung Ah Oh | 가천대, 부교수 ]

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발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  미국소설 [마크 트웨인 리뷰]

• 간기

  연3회

• pISSN

  1738-5784

• 수록기간

  1991~2020

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 843 DDC 813