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Lee, Hsiu-chuan.

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"Post-modern transferrence"/reading identity politics beyond modernity: Cases from contemporary world literature.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Post-modern transferrence"/reading identity politics beyond modernity: Cases from contemporary world literature./
Author:	Lee, Hsiu-chuan.
Description:	281 p.
Notes:	Chair: Stephen H. Sumida.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International58-10A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9811121
ISBN:	9780591618426

"Post-modern transferrence"/reading identity politics beyond modernity: Cases from contemporary world literature.
Lee, Hsiu-chuan.

"Post-modern transferrence"/reading identity politics beyond modernity: Cases from contemporary world literature. - 281 p.

Chair: Stephen H. Sumida.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 1997.

This dissertation aims to conceive an identity politics "beyond modernity." In view of the fact that conventional modern identity politics, which focuses on retrieving the essence of an identity category, usually ends up being complicit with the modern logic of discrimination and exclusion, of interest is how to theorize a model of identity politics that more effectively tackles the asymmetrical power structure of modernity. I propose first to change our focus from the "essence" or "authenticity" of a specific identity group to the shifting boundaries and writerly contents of each category. Moreover, instead of trying to solve the problems of modern unequal power once and for all, I argue that "post-modern" identity politics is fundamentally a "tactic" of intervention and negotiation which does not aim at transcending or totalizing but at negotiating, analyzing, and modifying the power relations between different identity groups.

ISBN: 9780591618426Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017657
Literature, American.

"Post-modern transferrence"/reading identity politics beyond modernity: Cases from contemporary world literature.
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520 $a This dissertation aims to conceive an identity politics "beyond modernity." In view of the fact that conventional modern identity politics, which focuses on retrieving the essence of an identity category, usually ends up being complicit with the modern logic of discrimination and exclusion, of interest is how to theorize a model of identity politics that more effectively tackles the asymmetrical power structure of modernity. I propose first to change our focus from the "essence" or "authenticity" of a specific identity group to the shifting boundaries and writerly contents of each category. Moreover, instead of trying to solve the problems of modern unequal power once and for all, I argue that "post-modern" identity politics is fundamentally a "tactic" of intervention and negotiation which does not aim at transcending or totalizing but at negotiating, analyzing, and modifying the power relations between different identity groups.
520 $a The four cases under my examination, Morrison's Sula, Kogawa's Obasan, Hagedorn's Dogeaters, and the post-Mao Chinese roots literature, revise modern identity divisions from the positions of a racial minority, an immigrant community, a migrant subject, and a Third World country. A homoerotic representation in Sula subjects the black-white power relations to re-imagination. In Obasan, a Japanese(-)Canadian immigrant identity is conceived by an opening up of the "in-between" space of the Japan-Canada racial/national bipolarity. Dogeaters theorizes a Filipino(-)American migrant subjecthood, and roots literature hybridizes and thus decomposes the singularity and homogeneity of "Chineseness." Given that the identity politics undertaken in each text comes hand in hand with an attempt to symbolize a piece of memory or historical past which is either repressed, displaced, or unrepresentable, the psychoanalytic concept of "transference" is deployed to understand how past and memory can be appropriated to be a source of one's identity. My thesis that "post-modern" identity is an effect of "transference" draws attention to the imaginary materiality of an identity without appealing to its pre-given, hence a-historical essence.
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