The Emergence of Asian American Diasporic Subjectivity in Karen Tei Yamashita’s I Hotel
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Since the late twentieth century, the radical demographic shifts and diversification of Asian immigrants has challenged the validity of the term Asian American itself. Accordingly, Asian American studies has moved away from identity politics to the focus on heterogeneity caused by recent increases in transnational mobility and globalization. Under these recent trends, sansei Japanese American writer, Karen Tei Yamashita, attempts to argue for the validity of Asian American identity by dealing with Asian American social movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, which resulted in the birth of the common Asian American racial identity in her fifth book, I Hotel (2010). Over the course of the 640-pages in this grand volume of historical details, Yamashita endeavors to create a synthetic view of the histories of Asian Americans who took diverse trajectories that intersected at the same time. This study employs the concept of “diaspora” to understand Yamashita’s attempt to maintain the validity of Asian American solidarity while still embracing diverse aspects of the fragmented experiences of Asian Americans. For this purpose, this study examines the diasporic experiences of Paul, a Chinese American teenager, from the first novella, and expands the discussion to the case of Asian Americans by jumping to the last novella which deals with the collective sense of the narrator “We” representing Asian Americans. In the process, the I-Hotel serves as the conditions for drawing heterogeneous members of the dispersion together, establishing a diasporic consciousness of Asian Americans.
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Since the late twentieth century, the radical demographic shifts and diversification of Asian immigrants has challenged the validity of the term Asian American itself. Accordingly, Asian American studies has moved away from identity politics to the focus on heterogeneity caused by recent increases in transnational mobility and globalization. Under these recent trends, sansei Japanese American writer, Karen Tei Yamashita, attempts to argue for the validity of Asian American identity by dealing with Asian American social movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, which resulted in the birth of the common Asian American racial identity in her fifth book, I Hotel (2010). Over the course of the 640-pages in this grand volume of historical details, Yamashita endeavors to create a synthetic view of the histories of Asian Americans who took diverse trajectories that intersected at the same time. This study employs the concept of “diaspora” to understand Yamashita’s attempt to maintain the validity of Asian American solidarity while still embracing diverse aspects of the fragmented experiences of Asian Americans. For this purpose, this study examines the diasporic experiences of Paul, a Chinese American teenager, from the first novella, and expands the discussion to the case of Asian Americans by jumping to the last novella which deals with the collective sense of the narrator “We” representing Asian Americans. In the process, the I-Hotel serves as the conditions for drawing heterogeneous members of the dispersion together, establishing a diasporic consciousness of Asian Americans.
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