Gender, Class, and Postracial American World of Janice Y. K. Lee’s The Expatriates
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Despite the exposed hegemony of gender and class that can be detected in the recently published novel The Expatriates written by a Korean American writer Janice Lee, the text lacks serious engagement with the issue of race in general. The paper tries to analyze this absence of racial consciousness in the text in relation to the recent emergence of the so-called Asian American postracial literature. Post-racial Asian American literature can be understood and read in multiple ways. When an Asian American writer attempts to deal with a universal theme that is not confined to the exclusive experience of Asian Americans, so post-racial in a sense, what happens intriguingly in the text is not a total removal of the discursive system of race, gender, and class. Rather, as many critics discussing the potential of post-racial Asian American literature, such literature innately reveals and highlights the perpetuation of the system despite the seeming absence. Reading The Expatriates as a text that deals with the theme of motherhood in relation to gender and class issues involved in Americans' border-crossings to Asia, the paper analyzes how the overlooked issue of race in the text in the end plays an important role in highlighting the fantasy of the postracial world.
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Despite the exposed hegemony of gender and class that can be detected in the recently published novel The Expatriates written by a Korean American writer Janice Lee, the text lacks serious engagement with the issue of race in general. The paper tries to analyze this absence of racial consciousness in the text in relation to the recent emergence of the so-called Asian American postracial literature. Post-racial Asian American literature can be understood and read in multiple ways. When an Asian American writer attempts to deal with a universal theme that is not confined to the exclusive experience of Asian Americans, so post-racial in a sense, what happens intriguingly in the text is not a total removal of the discursive system of race, gender, and class. Rather, as many critics discussing the potential of post-racial Asian American literature, such literature innately reveals and highlights the perpetuation of the system despite the seeming absence. Reading The Expatriates as a text that deals with the theme of motherhood in relation to gender and class issues involved in Americans' border-crossings to Asia, the paper analyzes how the overlooked issue of race in the text in the end plays an important role in highlighting the fantasy of the postracial world.
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