Who’s in Asian America? A Critical Examination of the Diasporic Subjectivity of Asian American Writers
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The birth of Asian American as a racial group has its roots in the Asian American social movements of the 1960s; their initial focus was to claim the Asian American racial subject as enfranchised US citizens within the domestic boundaries of the nation-state. This cultural nationalistic project, however, has been challenged by a transnational turn of Asian American studies since the late 1990s in a response to the changes in global economic and cultural landscapes. Under the new contexts Asian Americans are encountering in terms of identity politics, the term diaspora has provided a viable theoretical concept of Asian Americans and has enabled Asian Americans to claim their own spaces beyond the U.S. borders. This study critically examines the conditions under which Asian American diasporic subjectivities are practiced and experienced through the case of a globally recognized Korean American writer, Linda Sue Park. who becomes eligible for belonging to multiple places not only in the context of multicultural education and increasing U.S. interest in Asian studies, but also under the umbrella of the global Korea project undertaken by the South Korean government since the late 1990s. In other words, Park’s subjectivity is positioned within the expanded cultural citizenship of global Korea as well as the ideal of conservative multiculturalism for widening American-ness. Park’s case shows that the establishment of diasporic subjectivity is not a romantic journey in search of the ethnic/racial roots. Rather it embodies a neo-colonial relationship between Asia and America and re-territorializes the citizenship in the emerging transnational spaces depending on the possession of global capital.
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The birth of Asian American as a racial group has its roots in the Asian American social movements of the 1960s; their initial focus was to claim the Asian American racial subject as enfranchised US citizens within the domestic boundaries of the nation-state. This cultural nationalistic project, however, has been challenged by a transnational turn of Asian American studies since the late 1990s in a response to the changes in global economic and cultural landscapes. Under the new contexts Asian Americans are encountering in terms of identity politics, the term diaspora has provided a viable theoretical concept of Asian Americans and has enabled Asian Americans to claim their own spaces beyond the U.S. borders. This study critically examines the conditions under which Asian American diasporic subjectivities are practiced and experienced through the case of a globally recognized Korean American writer, Linda Sue Park. who becomes eligible for belonging to multiple places not only in the context of multicultural education and increasing U.S. interest in Asian studies, but also under the umbrella of the global Korea project undertaken by the South Korean government since the late 1990s. In other words, Park’s subjectivity is positioned within the expanded cultural citizenship of global Korea as well as the ideal of conservative multiculturalism for widening American-ness. Park’s case shows that the establishment of diasporic subjectivity is not a romantic journey in search of the ethnic/racial roots. Rather it embodies a neo-colonial relationship between Asia and America and re-territorializes the citizenship in the emerging transnational spaces depending on the possession of global capital.
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