2. “Border-crossing and Displacement: The Diasporic Identities in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange.”
學年 103
學期 1
出版（發表）日期 2014-08-01
作品名稱 2. “Border-crossing and Displacement: The Diasporic Identities in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange.”
作品名稱（其他語言）
著者 黃永裕
單位 英文學系暨研究所
出版者 © Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford, United Kingdom
著錄名稱、卷期、頁數 New Perspectives in Diasporic Experience
摘要 This chapter takes an interdisciplinary approach to explore the thematic concern
 of Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange, mostly from the perspectives of
 ecocriticism and cultural studies. As a third-generation Japanese American writer,
 Yamashita tends to write with a mission to represent the diasporic experiences of
 Asian and Latino immigrants in the United States, with a focus on their revelation
 of a fluid sense of self and their inclination to mediate between two distinct
 cultures. The increasing impact of globalisation poses new challenges to these
 immigrants in their efforts to cope with the problems of displacement and
 assimilation in the course of migration and inhabitation, which are among the
 main issues raised in Tropic of Orange. Yamashita’s diasporic worldview is
 explicitly divulged by her depiction of seven characters who represent prototypes
 of a universal phenomenon of border-crossing and displacement in Los Angeles
 and Mexico in the 1980s. This chapter points out the negative impact of corporate
 globalisation on local people, which is reflected in the blurred boundary between
 aspects of consensual reality and the concepts of space and time, along with the
 confusion of individual, ethnic, and cultural identifications. What Yamashita
 delineates is a teletopia without sense of time and place, with the features of
 displacement and hybridity exemplified by the seven characters in Tropic of
 Orange.
關鍵字 diasporic studies
語言 en
ISBN ISBN: 978-1-84888-291-1
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