英文摘要 |
The call for papers for “Our Euro-America” symposium highlights one urgent concern for researchers of European and American Literary Studies in Taiwan: what new questions emerged from our research as we strove to negotiate the tensions between neoliberal logics of knowledge production and local knowledge formations? In responding to this question, this essay first begins with a discussion of the “Asian American Studies in Asia” workshop held at the Institute of European and American Studies at Academia Sinica in 2010. Specifically, the essay discusses how this timely and ambitious project negotiates the internal differences that intersecting formations of (neo) colonialism and ethnic nationalism have reproduced among minoritized subjects in the context of America’s Inter-Asia and Pacific. The second half of the essay provides a succinct comparative discussion of Ku Yu-ling’s Our Stories (2008) and Cuban American writer Cristina Garcia’s Monkey Hunting (2003). By situating this discussion in dialogue with recent theorization of comparative racialization that debunks persistent cultural nationalism in U.S.-based coalition projects, the essay explores how the new transnational imaginaries about Asian America emerging from the juxtaposition of these two texts point to possible alternative frameworks to comprehend, reimagine, and practice European and American Literary Studies in Taiwan differently. |