This talk examines how zainichi (Korean Japanese) fiction incorporates American racial discourse to conceptualize a mode of "transpacific cultural mediation"--that is, American culture functions as a mediating space for zainichi subject formation in the discriminatory social structure of Japan.
Roh uses a transnational Asian American Studies framework to articulate the importance of considering tertiary national sites in diasporic minority discourse, and to reveal the triangulated formation of these communities through national policy, history, and culture.
The relationship between the United States empire and imperial Japan, with the zainichi population caught between, informs their definition as colonized people, ephemerality as citizens, formulation as resident aliens, and finally, as racialized subjects.
David S. Roh is assistant professor of English at the University of Utah, where he specializes in digital humanities and Asian American literature.
Admission/Cost: FREE
Location:
Literature Building Room 155 (de Certeau)
University of California San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr
La Jolla, CA 92093
Date and time:
Thursday, May 19 - 4:00 PM
For more information, please visit: www.literature.ucsd.edu or call: (323) 388-7368
Roh uses a transnational Asian American Studies framework to articulate the importance of considering tertiary national sites in diasporic minority discourse, and to reveal the triangulated formation of these communities through national policy, history, and culture.
The relationship between the United States empire and imperial Japan, with the zainichi population caught between, informs their definition as colonized people, ephemerality as citizens, formulation as resident aliens, and finally, as racialized subjects.
David S. Roh is assistant professor of English at the University of Utah, where he specializes in digital humanities and Asian American literature.
Admission/Cost: FREE
Location:
Literature Building Room 155 (de Certeau)
University of California San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr
La Jolla, CA 92093
Date and time:
Thursday, May 19 - 4:00 PM
For more information, please visit: www.literature.ucsd.edu or call: (323) 388-7368
