Diasporic Shame and Not-Quite-Queer Performativity in Lan Samantha Chang's Hunger
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12469194 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven M Lee (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 117-149 |
| Publication date | 2011-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Asian American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1096-8598 • E-ISSN: 1097-2129 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jaas.2011.0003 |
| OpenAlex | W2048271363 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Utilizing the relationship Eve Sedgwick conceives between shame and "queer performativity," this essay argues that there is a distinctly politicized ethnicity inherent in the immigrant musician father's shame-driven compulsion to perform in Lan Samantha Chang's Hunger. Although the politics of this diasporic shame are effectively lost upon the assimilative second generation daughters (as well as a mainstream American audience), its lasting legacy is at once the hindrance of their complete assimilation to dominant society and the production of a haunting and irreconcilable longing for ethnic affiliation that is in marked contradistinction to the progressive Asian American political consciousness realized in previous daughter-father narratives such as Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men
Aesthetics · Art · China · Consciousness · Ethnic group · Literature · Mainstream · Narrative · Performativity · Political science · Politics · Queer · Shame · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |