Burning Down the Little House on the PrairieAsian Pioneers in Contemporary North America
ISSN: 0210-6124
Argitalpen urtea: 2011
Alea: 33
Zenbakia: 2
Orrialdeak: 27-41
Mota: Artikulua
Beste argitalpen batzuk: Atlantis: Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos
Laburpena
The Kappa Child (2001), de la autora canadiense de origen japonés Hiromi Goto y Stealing Buddah's Dinner (2007), de la autora de origen vietnamita Bich Minh Nguyen, ofrecen narrativas de infancia de niñas asiáticas que crecen en Norteamérica en las décadas pre-multiculturales de los años 70 y 80, cuando la palabra étnico no estaba aún de moda y la asimilación a la cultura blanca dominante era el mayor deseo de cualquier niña. En ambos textos literarios, las narradoras están fascinadas por la historia de continuo desplazamiento y reemplazamiento de La casa de la pradera, de la autora estadounidense Laura Ingalls Wilder (1935), y ambas se sumen en la misma desilusión debido a la distancia racial y étnica que hace imposible que ellas se conviertan en auténticas Lauras en sus respectivos contextos. Este artículo intenta evaluar la influencia de esta narrativa clásica de migración pionera (interna) en la percepción de su racialización por parte de dos inmigrantes asiáticas en Norteamérica, su propia valoración crítica del racismo en los textos de Ingalls Wilder y el consecuente proceso de construcción de las subjetividades racializadas de las narradoras de Goto y Nguyen.
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