Stereotypes, Acting, and Alienation: Philip Kan Gotanda’s Yankee Dawg You Die
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This paper explores the intersectionality of race, labor, stereotype, and self-alienation in an Asian American context, using Philip Kan Gotanda’s Yankee Dawg You Die (1988) as the primary text. The Asian stereotypes have long affected American mass media’s representation of Asian Americans, exposing them to a serious degree of alienation and identity crisis that is reproduced and inherited between generations. Therefore, this paper argues that Yankee Dawg’s main focus is not on the individuals involved in the intergenerational conflict but on the American system which forces them to reproduce the stereotypes as well as the racial self-alienation. To analyze the structure of racial self-alienation and search for the possibility of de-alienation, this paper firstly illuminates the origin of anti-Asian sentiment and Asian stereotypes, which is found in the history of Asian immigrant labor by which the bipolarization of Asian sexuality occurred in terms of media representation. Then, this paper moves on to investigate Yankee Dawg, focusing on how intergenerational conflict is built upon the unchallenged racial stereotypes and the inherited self-alienation of Asian American actors. Though a century has passed since the days of the coolies, the ontological crisis derived from stereotypes still plagues Asian Americans of the present and especially the representational laborers. Finally, the paper’s historical and textual analysis will search for the possibilities of de-alienation, by questioning the role of Asian American actors, audience, and racial ideology in fast-changing media markets.
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This paper explores the intersectionality of race, labor, stereotype, and self-alienation in an Asian American context, using Philip Kan Gotanda’s Yankee Dawg You Die (1988) as the primary text. The Asian stereotypes have long affected American mass media’s representation of Asian Americans, exposing them to a serious degree of alienation and identity crisis that is reproduced and inherited between generations. Therefore, this paper argues that Yankee Dawg’s main focus is not on the individuals involved in the intergenerational conflict but on the American system which forces them to reproduce the stereotypes as well as the racial self-alienation. To analyze the structure of racial self-alienation and search for the possibility of de-alienation, this paper firstly illuminates the origin of anti-Asian sentiment and Asian stereotypes, which is found in the history of Asian immigrant labor by which the bipolarization of Asian sexuality occurred in terms of media representation. Then, this paper moves on to investigate Yankee Dawg, focusing on how intergenerational conflict is built upon the unchallenged racial stereotypes and the inherited self-alienation of Asian American actors. Though a century has passed since the days of the coolies, the ontological crisis derived from stereotypes still plagues Asian Americans of the present and especially the representational laborers. Finally, the paper’s historical and textual analysis will search for the possibilities of de-alienation, by questioning the role of Asian American actors, audience, and racial ideology in fast-changing media markets.
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