Reflections on the Interface between Native Son and Native Speaker
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This paper examines the interface that splits apart yet at the same time links Native Son and Native Speaker, which unmistakably parallel each other in genre and theme in addition to their titular ties. In the first half of this Native Son/Native Speaker study, I investigate the complex and nuanced gap between the two texts, especially in relation to the matter of the unauthorized nativeness in white America, and also the direct clashes between Koreans and African Americans in the 1992 LA riots. In order to bridge the apparent gap between the two non-white minority groups, in the second half of this intertextuality study, I explore the unarticulated intersection of the African-Korean American texts by addressing self-effacement, the distinct feature shared by the subject formation of Green and Henry Park who appear, respectively, as a marginal African American character in Native Son and as a Korean American protagonist in Native Speaker. The main focus of this part is to examine the specific ways in which white surveillance culture exerts substantial influence on the distinct mode of the non-white subject formation, the correlation between surveillance culture and identity in a racially contextualized American society, so to speak. This Native Son/Native Speaker study thereby aims to contribute to a field of Afro-Asian intersection scholarship that is insufficient, compared to other cross-racial intersection scholarship within the field of American literary studies.
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This paper examines the interface that splits apart yet at the same time links Native Son and Native Speaker, which unmistakably parallel each other in genre and theme in addition to their titular ties. In the first half of this Native Son/Native Speaker study, I investigate the complex and nuanced gap between the two texts, especially in relation to the matter of the unauthorized nativeness in white America, and also the direct clashes between Koreans and African Americans in the 1992 LA riots. In order to bridge the apparent gap between the two non-white minority groups, in the second half of this intertextuality study, I explore the unarticulated intersection of the African-Korean American texts by addressing self-effacement, the distinct feature shared by the subject formation of Green and Henry Park who appear, respectively, as a marginal African American character in Native Son and as a Korean American protagonist in Native Speaker. The main focus of this part is to examine the specific ways in which white surveillance culture exerts substantial influence on the distinct mode of the non-white subject formation, the correlation between surveillance culture and identity in a racially contextualized American society, so to speak. This Native Son/Native Speaker study thereby aims to contribute to a field of Afro-Asian intersection scholarship that is insufficient, compared to other cross-racial intersection scholarship within the field of American literary studies.
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