出版日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

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