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This paper examines Cathy Park Hong’s The World Cloud, focusing on racial identity, digital capitalism, and the American Dream. While often regarded as a departure from Hong’s earlier racial identity politics, The World Cloud instead explores how racialized subjectivity is reconfigured in a digitized society. In “A Visitation” and “Who’s Who,” cyberspace appears to offer racial anonymity and fluidity, yet the memories and embodied experiences of Asian Americans persist, suggesting that digital transformation cannot erase racial identity. Hong further reveals how racial identity is intertwined with precarious digital labor and the collapse of the American Dream. Situating The World Cloud in California and the American West, she links Silicon Valley’s digital frontier to the mythology of westward expansion and Manifest Destiny. Asian American workers who sustain this frontier emerge not as triumphant agents of progress but as precarious, replaceable, and invisible laborers. Ultimately, The World Cloud reveals how digital transformation reconstructs racial identity while reproducing inequalities beneath promises of progress and limitless opportunity. Through the intersection of race, technology, and capitalism, Hong’s poetry offers an awakening from the American Dream in the digital age.

목차

I. 들어가는 글
II. 디지털 세계에서 재구성되는 아시아계 미국인의 정체성
III. 캘리포니아라는 공간적 배경과 ‘미국의 꿈’의 균열
IV. 나가는 글
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저자

• 조희정 [ Cho, Heejeong | 중앙대학교 ]

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간행물

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810