“Once a Jap, Always a Jap”: Delegitimizing the Violence of “Dangerous Enemy Aliens” in No-No Boy
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This essay discusses the construction of Asian American male subjectivity in John Okada’s No-No Boy (1957). Okada’s novel traces the lives of Japanese Americans after they were freed from the internment camps and also examines the attending conflict within the community between the no-no boys, who refused to serve in the American army during WWII and the yes-yes veterans, who chose to prove their “patriotism” and “loyalty” by serving in the military. More specifically, this essay addresses how Asian American men are debarred from employing the rhetoric of war and violence and are thus relegated as unsanctioned agents of violence, even though such rhetoric is made available to “loyal” American male subjects; the racial castration of racialized masculinity is made evident not only by Ichiro’s social invisibility but also by the veterans’ relegation to the racial margins after their military service.
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This essay discusses the construction of Asian American male subjectivity in John Okada’s No-No Boy (1957). Okada’s novel traces the lives of Japanese Americans after they were freed from the internment camps and also examines the attending conflict within the community between the no-no boys, who refused to serve in the American army during WWII and the yes-yes veterans, who chose to prove their “patriotism” and “loyalty” by serving in the military. More specifically, this essay addresses how Asian American men are debarred from employing the rhetoric of war and violence and are thus relegated as unsanctioned agents of violence, even though such rhetoric is made available to “loyal” American male subjects; the racial castration of racialized masculinity is made evident not only by Ichiro’s social invisibility but also by the veterans’ relegation to the racial margins after their military service.
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