The "Comfort" Of Critical Consolidation
Pedagogy, Ethical Alienation, and Asian American Literary Studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3170608 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tina Chen (0000-0002-8021-3270, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 331-354 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9831 • E-ISSN: 1527-2117 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00029831-3861541 |
| OpenAlex | W2616996627 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 34 |
This article proposes ethical alienation as a critical pedagogical practice by analyzing the neoteric critical consolidation of Asian American literary and cultural studies, a consolidation marked by the recent (and near simultaneous) publication of four major compendiums-The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature (Lee 2014), Keywords for Asian American Studies (Schlund-Vials, Vo, and Wong 2015), The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature (Parikh and Kim 2015), and The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature (Srikanth and Song 2015). The publication of these four compendiums within the span of a year signals a pivotal moment in Asian American literary and cultural studies, one that both recognizes the institutional gains of the field and addresses the (in)compatibilities between the field's theoretical developments and its pedagogical practices. This article considers the centrality of ethics to a postidentity Asian American studies, suggesting how ethical alienation-signaled both by the figuration of "comfort women"/military sex slaves/halmoni and our own estrangement from it-can create productive classroom and metapedagogical practices in the study of Asian American literature. By attending to the field's consolidations around a set of pedagogical and scholarly imperatives and analyzing that critical solidification in relation to "comfort women"/military sex slaves/halmoni both as a figuration of "complex personhood" (Gordon 1997, 4-5) and as an interdisciplinary "term of analysis and history rather than personhood" (Chuh 2003a, 9), this article argues that ethical alienation as pedagogical practice can lead us to a differently ordered set of disciplinary priorities
Alienation · Discipline · Personhood · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Race, History, and American Society
The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature
The Reorder of Things
Ghostly Matters
The International within the National
Cultural Capital
The End of "American" Literature
Proceed with Caution, When Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas
Legacies of the Comfort Women of World War II
The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature
The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature
Double Agency
Immigrant Acts
Imagine Otherwise
The Reorder of Things
Sex among Allies
Japan's Comfort Women
The Comfort Women
The Fiction of Asian American Literature
Discomforting Knowledge
"Conjuring "Comfort Women
Traveling Memories, Contagious Justice
They Are Our Grandmas
Beyond the Shadow of Camptown
The Comfort Women
Militarism, colonialism, and the trafficking of women
War and Apology
Japanese Reparations Policies and the “Comfort Women” Question
Towards an Ethics of Knowledge
Comfort Women Speak
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2021 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |