TY - JOUR
T1 - Inter-Asian migratory roads
T2 - The gamble of time in Our Stories
AU - Parry, Amie Elizabeth
PY - 2012/6
Y1 - 2012/6
N2 - This essay reads Taiwan activist Ku Yu-ling's acclaimed narrative, Our Stories, and in particular its first section entitled 'We/Us,' as a critical theorization of labor, migration, domesticity and the foreign. To this end, 'We/Us' names the Cold War as historical determinant where it otherwise would remain unrecognized as such, yet reframes its formation in Asia by presenting multiple agencies and mappings rather than reifying a US-centered paradigm. 'We/Us' repeatedly foregrounds the difficulty of its own constitutive stories and readings, thereby intervening into any positivistic, developmental framings of the Inter-Asia project at the moment of the latter's institutionalization. A text that is not Asian American per se, whether in its authorship or in the direction taken by the migratory roads it narrates, Our Stories presents new paradigms for migration and time, gendered racialized labor and the Cold War, that can dialogue productively with current scholarship in Asian American studies.
AB - This essay reads Taiwan activist Ku Yu-ling's acclaimed narrative, Our Stories, and in particular its first section entitled 'We/Us,' as a critical theorization of labor, migration, domesticity and the foreign. To this end, 'We/Us' names the Cold War as historical determinant where it otherwise would remain unrecognized as such, yet reframes its formation in Asia by presenting multiple agencies and mappings rather than reifying a US-centered paradigm. 'We/Us' repeatedly foregrounds the difficulty of its own constitutive stories and readings, thereby intervening into any positivistic, developmental framings of the Inter-Asia project at the moment of the latter's institutionalization. A text that is not Asian American per se, whether in its authorship or in the direction taken by the migratory roads it narrates, Our Stories presents new paradigms for migration and time, gendered racialized labor and the Cold War, that can dialogue productively with current scholarship in Asian American studies.
KW - Our Stories
KW - inter-Asian migration
KW - narrative form
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84861602892&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14649373.2012.659807
DO - 10.1080/14649373.2012.659807
M3 - 期刊論文
AN - SCOPUS:84861602892
SN - 1464-9373
VL - 13
SP - 176
EP - 188
JO - Inter-Asia Cultural Studies
JF - Inter-Asia Cultural Studies
IS - 2
ER -