Angel Island의 중국인 이주자들의 시에 나타난 문화적 갈등
Cultural Struggle in Chinese Immigrants’ Poems on Angel Island
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This article is an attempt to analyze Chinese immigrants’ poems on Angel Island during the period from 1910 to 1940. The island in San Francisco bay was a gate through which Chinese immigrants entered America. Many of them stayed there waiting for the result of inspection or deportation. They left poems on the walls of barrack. Many of the poems demonstrate negative viewpoints upon America. Poems in ‘The Voyage’ mainly express the expectation of economically motivated immigrants rather than describe the voyage itself. In ‘Detainment’ the poems express sorrow and anger. ‘The Weak shall Conquer’ provides poems that demonstrate the subversive desire of Chinese as weak people against the dominant structure of West. Poems in ‘About Westerners’ express antipathy to the Westerners treating Chinese without respect, especially doctors examining their bodies. They evince the cultural differences in viewpoint upon bodies. Poems in ‘Deportees, Transients’ express the feelings of those who are destined to return. The poems reflect the cultural shock of Chinese immigrants who are faced with the American culture in the international relationship. The works give a voice to the stereotyped silence of Asians who have been discriminated.
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This article is an attempt to analyze Chinese immigrants’ poems on Angel Island during the period from 1910 to 1940. The island in San Francisco bay was a gate through which Chinese immigrants entered America. Many of them stayed there waiting for the result of inspection or deportation. They left poems on the walls of barrack. Many of the poems demonstrate negative viewpoints upon America. Poems in ‘The Voyage’ mainly express the expectation of economically motivated immigrants rather than describe the voyage itself. In ‘Detainment’ the poems express sorrow and anger. ‘The Weak shall Conquer’ provides poems that demonstrate the subversive desire of Chinese as weak people against the dominant structure of West. Poems in ‘About Westerners’ express antipathy to the Westerners treating Chinese without respect, especially doctors examining their bodies. They evince the cultural differences in viewpoint upon bodies. Poems in ‘Deportees, Transients’ express the feelings of those who are destined to return. The poems reflect the cultural shock of Chinese immigrants who are faced with the American culture in the international relationship. The works give a voice to the stereotyped silence of Asians who have been discriminated.
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