“The Best Thing America Gave Me”: Diasporic Memory and Creative Nostalgia in A Good Fall
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Ha Jin’s A Good Fall is a collection of short stories about the lives of Chinese immigrants in Flushing, the second largest Chinatown in New York. This book features a cast of characters with diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, each story presenting one individual’s experience of formulating a new identity in a new society. As the collective diasporic experience of the Chinese immigrants in Flushing is historically, politically, culturally, and economically constructed, bonds with the motherland in the host country are displaced, unsettled, and repositioned. I argue that this collection of short stories presents a form of remembering that I call “creative nostalgia,” in which the Chinese homeland is both resurrected and re-created through interactions with the living reality of a new world. Creative nostalgia, practiced in different ways by the residents of Flushing’s Chinatown, sustains their bonds to the past while facilitating the process of creating new, unsettled identities.
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Ha Jin’s A Good Fall is a collection of short stories about the lives of Chinese immigrants in Flushing, the second largest Chinatown in New York. This book features a cast of characters with diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, each story presenting one individual’s experience of formulating a new identity in a new society. As the collective diasporic experience of the Chinese immigrants in Flushing is historically, politically, culturally, and economically constructed, bonds with the motherland in the host country are displaced, unsettled, and repositioned. I argue that this collection of short stories presents a form of remembering that I call “creative nostalgia,” in which the Chinese homeland is both resurrected and re-created through interactions with the living reality of a new world. Creative nostalgia, practiced in different ways by the residents of Flushing’s Chinatown, sustains their bonds to the past while facilitating the process of creating new, unsettled identities.
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