International Journal of Diaspora&Cultural Criticism Vol.14 No.1 목차

편집부 건국대학교 모빌리티인문학 연구원, 건국대학교 아시아·디아스포라 연구소 2024 International Journal of Diaspora&Cultural Critici Vol.14 No.1

The Past, Present, and Future of War Literature for Children in Japan through the Lens of The First Learning History of Japanese War Literature for Children

Gijae Seo 건국대학교 모빌리티인문학 연구원, 건국대학교 아시아·디아스포라 연구소 2016 International Journal of Diaspora&Cultural Critici Vol.6 No.2

Family Conflict and Ethical Dilemma: A Study of Edward Albee̕ s A Delicate Balance

Lianqiao Zhang 건국대학교 모빌리티인문학 연구원, 건국대학교 아시아·디아스포라 연구소 2016 International Journal of Diaspora&Cultural Critici Vol.6 No.2

In A Delicate Balance, Albee tries to provide an all-round depiction of the “small wars” happening in a normal American family and highlight the “large anxieties” in people’s daily lives. From the trivial lives of the protagonists in the play, it is obvious that people have continued to pursue the life philosophy and life ideal of the Beat Generation since the middle of the 20th century. As a family problem play, A Delicate Balance narrates the family conflicts faced by the couple Tobias and Agnes. These conflicts can be divided into three parts: the drinking problem of Claire, Agnes’s sister; the marriage problem of Julia, Agnes’s daughter; and Julia’s disturbance of Harry and Edna when they come to visit their old friends Tobias and Agnes. Albee uses A Delicate Balance to advise us that the crisis of intergenerational relationships in modern society can be solved through sincere communication and love; what’s more, they can also bring about true equality and fraternity.

After Reading Introduction to Ethical Literary Criticism: New Critical Thinking on Man and Ethics

Seokmin Yoon 건국대학교 모빌리티인문학 연구원, 건국대학교 아시아·디아스포라 연구소 2016 International Journal of Diaspora&Cultural Critici Vol.6 No.1

A Javanese View on America in the 60s: Umar Kayam and the Manhattan Stories

Paulus Sarwoto 건국대학교 모빌리티인문학 연구원, 건국대학교 아시아·디아스포라 연구소 2018 International Journal of Diaspora&Cultural Critici Vol.8 No.1

The Manhattan stories, consisting of six short stories written by an Indonesian vernacular author Umar Kayam, reflect a Javanese view on American life during the 1960s. Kayam’s stay in the US in the early 1960s as a graduate student provides the material for his writings. While he tends to view the dark sides of American capitalism, materialism, and individualism, his reflection on his own Javanese values is more positive. His narratives seem to consider that the agrarian life of Java in the 1960s provides a healthier and more secure social cohesion where individuals can relate to each other in a more humane way, unlike the American characters that are depicted as being lonely, fragile, without social cohesion, and criminal.

Yearning in Carlos Bulosan: Toward a Queer Working Class Consciousness

Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao 건국대학교 모빌리티인문학 연구원, 건국대학교 아시아·디아스포라 연구소 2017 International Journal of Diaspora&Cultural Critici Vol.7 No.1

Filipino author Carlos Bulosan (1911-1956) is a significant figure within the history of the Filipino Diaspora. As a member of the first wave of Filipino migrant workers (the Manong generation), Bulosan not only documents the struggles of Filipino migrant workers, but also explores their collective potential to mobilize for social justice. Today the Filipino Diaspora of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) is nearly 12 million. The experiences of women and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender OFWs require an analysis of gender and sexuality in relation to the racial-national subordination of the Filipino people. This paper explores the possibility of reading Bulosan’s work through the intersection of queer consciousness and class consciousness in ways that could make Bulosan relevant for contemporary social justice issues within the Filipino Diaspora.

Early Chinese Diasporas and the Chinese Exclusion Act

Yihua Chen 건국대학교 모빌리티인문학 연구원, 건국대학교 아시아·디아스포라 연구소 2016 International Journal of Diaspora&Cultural Critici Vol.6 No.1

In China, the statements about early Chinese diasporas and the Chinese Exclusion Act in a variety of literature, including history textbooks and research papers, are based on a set of presumptions underlying political or racial implications. (which include the formation of the early Chinese communities in America, the reason for the emergence of Chinese Exclusion Act, and the abrogation thereafter. Generally the presumptions assume the following: early Chinese laborers are forced to America by violence; the later strong resistance among local community against Chinese diasporas was out of racial prejudice; the pass of the Chinese Exclusion Act is to exclude all Chinese nationals; the termination of the Act is the fruit of struggle of American minority groups, including the struggle of Chinese diasporas” omitted). The presumptions are often so widely referred to in all kinds of research in the relative fields that it seems to be considered as truth without question. However, after a close reading of the historical documents, I find that the difficulties the early Chinese diasporas encountered and the emergence of the Chinese Exclusion Act should be attributed to economic factors rather than political or racial persecution. The presumptions—although for the most part fallacies and far from the historical truth—are widely accepted as truth because they are part of the sources of nationalism ideology construction and, later, the touchstone of the narration of the nation-state.

Mobility to Homeland Depicted in Narration in Zainichi Literature: The Meaning of ‘Boarding House’ in Yuhee by Yangji Lee and ‘Hawaii’ in GO by Kazuki Kaneshiro

Jooyoung Kim 건국대학교 모빌리티인문학 연구원, 건국대학교 아시아·디아스포라 연구소 2018 International Journal of Diaspora&Cultural Critici Vol.8 No.2

Zainichi literature is the literature in which Zainichi writers depict the life of Korean migrants. Therefore, Zainichi literature is narration that fundamentally contains the issue of mobility. As the range of identity movements in this globalized world has increased, it becomes difficult to interpret the issue only with the meaning of movements itself. In this study, the issue of mobility was examined by comparing Yuhee and GO. The concept of non-places that was not seen in Yuhee is found in GO, and the route that connects the motherland and Japan has expanded to the whole world. In other words, it is when Zainichi highlight their difference from Japanese that they become Zainichi. Likewise, they need to be aware of their differences from Koreans. Under the nationstate model of Korea - the motherland of the main character in Yuhee - being difficult to exist as a ‘compatriot’ becomes a reality against the background of the 1980s. However, entering the 2000s, GO focuses on Hawaii, the concept of a tourist destination as a non-place, and attempts to ‘exist’ both in Korea and Japan by viewing the existence of Zainichi neither as Korean nor as Japanese, which heralds the emergence of a new Zainichi literature and a new image of Zainichi.

The Ethical in the Aesthetic/The Aesthetic in the Ethical in Literatures from the Philippines

Maria Luisa Torres Reyes 건국대학교 모빌리티인문학 연구원, 건국대학교 아시아·디아스포라 연구소 2019 International Journal of Diaspora&Cultural Critici Vol.9 No.1

In Philippine literary studies, the “ethical turn” interfaces with the “aesthetic turn” particularly through the ways in which Western literary genres are artfully deployed, negotiated, reinvented and even resisted in non-Western contexts. In this sense, the aesthetic turn - “the question of genre or formal convention” - is intertwined with the ethical turn, at once foregrounding the textual strategies by which the particularities of poetics are constituted and highlighting the dynamic of reciprocal constitution at the point of interface. Rather than viewed in fixed, unitary, abstract, and universalizing terms, the interface might be regarded as evocative of mobile textuality between aesthetic valuation and ethical judgments; additionally, it is characterized by textual mobility across linguistic, cultural, social and historical contexts allowing for rich hermeneutical reflexivity. This mobility at the dynamic moment of interface will be discussed in this paper, but while such interface continues to be germane in the country’s postcolonial literature, the focus will be on the earlier periods of the country’s complex colonial history.

Intersections of Diasporic Asian-American Literatures: A Comparative Study of Zamora Linmark’s and Lois-Ann Yamanka’s Novels

John Paolo Sarce 건국대학교 모빌리티인문학 연구원, 건국대학교 아시아·디아스포라 연구소 2017 International Journal of Diaspora&Cultural Critici Vol.7 No.1

Diaspora has been one of the current trending issues in the academe across the globe; consequently, the cultural production, including literature, has been extended beyond the limits and borders of one’s state or nation and diversity among the genres and types has been welcomed with open arms. In light of ongoing studies on diaspora, Asian-American literature has been brought into the flanks of literature departments in different institutions, from East to West. Two unique and compelling novels are Rolling the R’s by Zamora Linmark and Blu’s Hanging by Lois-Ann Yamanaka. This paper focuses on the points of the intersectionality of the diasporic spaces through these two pieces of Asian-American literature—namely, language, gender identity, and ethnicity, which are apparent in both novels. The paper further illuminates the role of diasporic space in cultivating these different points of intersections with the help of two literary theories—post-colonialism and gender theory—which are both important lenses to strengthen and support the arguments regarding the role of diasporic spaces in undermining the socio-cultural backgrounds of different interlocutors present in the story, from their languages to their ethnicity.