Cosmopolitanism without empire? Tense and tender ties in Don Lee's Country of Origin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5140871 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chih-Ming Wang (0000-0001-8318-7680, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 227-243 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Dynamics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0921-3740 • E-ISSN: 1461-7048 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0921374013482390 |
| OpenAlex | W2320921018 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 33 |
This article approaches the question of "lived cosmopolitanism" through the eyes of transnational mixed-race adoptees. In recent years, adoption has been understood as a paradox evolving in the tension of humanitarian benevolence on the one hand and as a biopolitical scheme of Western imperialism on the other. Mixed-race adoptees are at once viewed as cosmopolitan figures that transcend race and nation and as abject, displaced figures that are produced and orphaned at the borders of kinship, nation, and culture. This article looks at the adoptees' stories to pry into the underside of cosmopolitanism and to consider how America's imperial outreach is tied up with Asia's modernity in the creation of adoptees. This approach promises to recast cosmopolitanism as a "reflexive project" by foregrounding our own embeddedness in the intimacies of nation and empire. The adoptees' life stories embody the modern/colonial beginnings and becomings of Asia
Aesthetics · Colonialism · Cosmopolitanism · Diaspora · Embeddedness · Empire · Foregrounding · Kinship · Literature · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Australian History and Society · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law
At home in the world
The politics of home
Postethnic America
Making “American” Families
Voices from the Teum
Adopted Territory
Haiboku o dakishimete
Tiger Woods Is Not the End of History
Mixed Messages
The Intimacies of Four Continents
Cosmopolitanism
Conceiving Cosmopolitanism
Maneuvers
Lost in TransNation
Beyond the Shadow of Camptown
Crossing Lines
Relative Histories
The Empire of Love
Haunted by Empire
From imperial to dialogical cosmopolitanism
The Feeling of Kinship
Barack Obama, the 2008 Presidential Election, and the New Cosmopolitanism
The Class Consciousness of Frequent Travelers
Transnational Adoption
Transnational Adoption, Hallyu , and the Politics of Korean Popular Culture
On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness
On Diasporic Intimacy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |