福爾摩沙及其背叛：情感斷層與離散矛盾

Formosa and Its Betrayals: The Affective Paradox of Diaspora

本文探討台美離散書寫中的認同矛盾與情感斷層。透過分析兩位新銳台美作家的作品，本文試圖指出：台美書寫裡的離散想像與遠距民族主義總是與台灣獨特的歷史情境相繫，而背叛的情感修辭乃是理解這個跨國連繫的關鍵。本文發現，背叛不只呈現為台美作家個人的認同矛盾與文化失語，同時也是台灣歷史的轉喻，指涉台灣在日美中帝國夾縫中的艱難處境。然而，更重要的是，背叛修辭同時也為遠距民族主義的家國想望提供論述的基礎，進而破壞（或背叛）了亞美認同跨族裔結盟的精神。換言之，台美離散書寫中的背叛焦慮其實也指向了亞美認同建構的內部矛盾。面對越來越複雜的跨國連繫，亞美研究有必要重新省視建構亞裔美國的方法：亞美不再只是一個獨立的泛族裔群體，對離散主體而言，它更是一個跨國空間與情感結構，包裹著多重乃至於相互矛盾的家國想像與認同模式。閱讀台美離散書寫迫使我們面對背叛焦慮的無所不在，也要求我們在跨國情境裡重新想像家國與認同的意義。

This article explores the significances of affect and betrayal in Taiwanese American identity formation through Brenda Lin's ＂Wealth Ribbons＂ (2004) and Francie Lin's ＂The Foreigner＂ (2008). It contends that the diasporic imagination and long-distance nationalism of Taiwanese America are affectively articulated with a history of betrayal in Taiwan, and that betrayal must be understood as an identity paradox that has created an affective fault in the Taiwanese American articulation of desire for belonging and home. The Taiwanese American identity formation, as supported by diasporic imagination and long-distance nationalism, moreover, brings about new challenges to the pan-ethnic paradigm of Asian American studies, which must learn to understand and theorize the Asian American community not so much as a distinct ethnic unity as a transnational space and structure of feeling by which ethnic subjects are retooling their relations with their cultural roots. Reading Taiwanese America's complex affect compels us to confront betrayal at the core of diaspora and to rethink the meanings of home and identity in transnational contexts.