The Rhetoric of Identity Politics and Subversive Ethnic Representations in Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese

• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: Jiyun Camilla Nam
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제46집 1호, 291~308쪽, 전체 17쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2014.05.31

영문 초록

Ever since Art Spiegelman won the Pulitzer Prize with his graphic novel "MAUS", graphic novels became widely recognized by literary scholars as new medium for serious literary expressions. Marjane Satrapi, an Iranian writer, also published her immensely popular "Persepolis" and the animated version of the book won a prize at the Academy Awards. In her graphic novel, she conveys her Bildungsroman experience as a little girl growing up in the fundamentalist Iran. Her work opened many discussions on how graphic novel, especially Bildungsroman graphic novel, could function as a new literary genre for the minority Asian Americans to express race and ethnic issues in America as well. This paper examines "American Born Chinese", a graphic novel by Chinese American writer Gene Luen Yang which won many awards and also was included in the literature book reading list for American high school students. Yang combines elements of a famous Chinese folk tale and his own growing-up experiences as a minority in a white-majority environment in his work. This paper analyzes how Yang maintains his Asian identity but at the same time exposes mis-representations of Asians in American society. Furthermore, this paper focuses on the rhetorics of the identity politics and subversive mis-representations of race in Yang's work. Finally this paper examines how the racial mis-representations and stereotypes could make comebacks even in the contemporary media and literature.

목차

Ⅰ. Introduction

Ⅱ. Ethnic Identity Politics in "autobio-graphics"

Ⅲ. Story of Chin-Kee and Danny: Rhetoric of Multiple Subversions

Ⅳ. Conclusion: To Transform, Subvert, and Reach the Mainstream Readership

Works Cited

Abstract

키워드

American Born Chinese Subversion Asian American Literature Chinese American Bildungsroman Graphic Novel Gene Luen Yang ethnic identity identity politics race mis-representation