Racial Impostor Syndrome and Asian American Racial In/Visibility in Chang-Rae Lee’s Native Speaker
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Chang-Rae Lee’s 1995 novel Native Speaker presents the reader with a now-universalized story of the racial minority alienation through its Korean American protagonist Henry Park. Yet the article examines the novel’s unique perception of this story of an ethnic minority man who is troubled with a perpetual sense of fraudulence and non-beloning in his role and performance in America. The pivotal theme of this article is the in/visibility through which the protagonist’s racialized subjectivity manifests. Reading alongside the notion of racial invisibility in Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man, the article examines how Lee’s revision unravels the convoluted issues of race and ethnicity in the contemporary U.S. The investigation of the novel’s representation of racial in/visibility uses Bourdieu’s social theory as an interpretive framework alongside Keevak’s study of the history of racialization to examine the normalized whiteness. The consquent dominance of language governed by racial grammar (Bonilla-Silva) and the sense of racial imposture and non-belonging mark the novel’s depictions of the damage caused by the problem of race.
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Chang-Rae Lee’s 1995 novel Native Speaker presents the reader with a now-universalized story of the racial minority alienation through its Korean American protagonist Henry Park. Yet the article examines the novel’s unique perception of this story of an ethnic minority man who is troubled with a perpetual sense of fraudulence and non-beloning in his role and performance in America. The pivotal theme of this article is the in/visibility through which the protagonist’s racialized subjectivity manifests. Reading alongside the notion of racial invisibility in Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man, the article examines how Lee’s revision unravels the convoluted issues of race and ethnicity in the contemporary U.S. The investigation of the novel’s representation of racial in/visibility uses Bourdieu’s social theory as an interpretive framework alongside Keevak’s study of the history of racialization to examine the normalized whiteness. The consquent dominance of language governed by racial grammar (Bonilla-Silva) and the sense of racial imposture and non-belonging mark the novel’s depictions of the damage caused by the problem of race.
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