Journal of Critical Studies in Language and Literature
The disquisitive purport of this paper tends to elucidate how an Asian-American female protagonis... more The disquisitive purport of this paper tends to elucidate how an Asian-American female protagonist vanquishes perturbation arising from uncertain identity and inferior status by spiritually and physically motivating the empowerment of agency through migration. Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homeland, written in the first person to delineate the female writer Shirley Lim’s reminiscence, unequivocally elucidates the tensility of female empowerment due to migration— the process not only reshaping one’s identification of subjectivity but unfolding one’s multiple territories with regard to gender, race and class. Lim’s migrating experiences accompanied by inward percipience expatiates on how an individual with femininity copes with struggling caused by dislocation of female self domestically, racially and nationally. Correspondingly, the protagonist’s subjectivity reconstruction will be explained in the light of Gayatri Spivak’s theory of negotiating the structur...
Journal of Critical Studies in Language and Literature
The Asian American literary work written by Eddie Huang, Fresh off the Boat expounds how the immi... more The Asian American literary work written by Eddie Huang, Fresh off the Boat expounds how the immigrant family pursuits the ideal American Dream in Orlando. Asian American characters can hardly survive in the racist fissure due to ethnic discrimination and denigration in Western immigrant society. Being absurdly imposed with stereotyped images arising from culture collisions, how the protagonist of the reminiscence strives for being a warrior to subvert prejudiced stereotypes in traumatic life experiences is the dominant issue to be analyzed in this paper in accordance with the following steps: First, expound the crisis of uncertain Asian American identity resulting from culture collision; Second, decipher model minority myth imposed with racial bias; Third, probe into traumatic experiences caused by stereotype in various space; Fourth, discuss the formation of Asian American subjectivity through the perspective of cultural diversification, and finally, explore the finding of how eth...
Journal of Critical Studies in Language and Literature
The disquisitive purport of this paper tends to elucidate how an Asian-American female protagonis... more The disquisitive purport of this paper tends to elucidate how an Asian-American female protagonist vanquishes perturbation arising from uncertain identity and inferior status by spiritually and physically motivating the empowerment of agency through migration. Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homeland, written in the first person to delineate the female writer Shirley Lim’s reminiscence, unequivocally elucidates the tensility of female empowerment due to migration— the process not only reshaping one’s identification of subjectivity but unfolding one’s multiple territories with regard to gender, race and class. Lim’s migrating experiences accompanied by inward percipience expatiates on how an individual with femininity copes with struggling caused by dislocation of female self domestically, racially and nationally. Correspondingly, the protagonist’s subjectivity reconstruction will be explained in the light of Gayatri Spivak’s theory of negotiating the structur...
Journal of Critical Studies in Language and Literature
The Asian American literary work written by Eddie Huang, Fresh off the Boat expounds how the immi... more The Asian American literary work written by Eddie Huang, Fresh off the Boat expounds how the immigrant family pursuits the ideal American Dream in Orlando. Asian American characters can hardly survive in the racist fissure due to ethnic discrimination and denigration in Western immigrant society. Being absurdly imposed with stereotyped images arising from culture collisions, how the protagonist of the reminiscence strives for being a warrior to subvert prejudiced stereotypes in traumatic life experiences is the dominant issue to be analyzed in this paper in accordance with the following steps: First, expound the crisis of uncertain Asian American identity resulting from culture collision; Second, decipher model minority myth imposed with racial bias; Third, probe into traumatic experiences caused by stereotype in various space; Fourth, discuss the formation of Asian American subjectivity through the perspective of cultural diversification, and finally, explore the finding of how eth...
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