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dc.contributor.authorPehkoranta, Anna
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-26T06:02:59Z
dc.date.available2016-08-26T06:02:59Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationPehkoranta, A. (2015). Displaced desires : the dislocated self and melancholic desire in Chuang Hua's Crossings and Fae Myenne Ng's Steer toward rock. <i>Amerikastudien / American studies</i>, <i>60</i>(2/3), 255-273.
dc.identifier.otherCONVID_26082641
dc.identifier.otherTUTKAID_70452
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/51070
dc.description.abstractThis essay investigates two aesthetically innovative Chinese American prose narratives, Crossings (1968) by Chuang Hua and Steer Toward Rock (2008) by Fae Myenne Ng, which have so far inspired relatively few scholarly readings. Although published forty years apart, both texts convey a melancholic image of displaced desires—loved ones who are lost, beyond reach, or unresponsive—that is echoed by their complex narrative structure and rich stylistic repertoire. Drawing from the psychoanalytically informed notion of racial melancholia, this essay argues that in Chuang’s Crossings and in Ng’s Steer Toward Rock the dynamics of melancholia manifest most prominently in the ways their dislocated characters negotiate between a melancholic desire to preserve a lost object of love, on one hand, and a persistent quest for an integrated sense of self, on the other. By examining their dislocated Asian American subjects, transnational love affairs, and melancholic desire, this essay suggests that both writers contribute to a particular aesthetics and ethics of melancholia, in which identificatory and narrative boundaries alike are contested and transgressed. It further argues that melancholia is present in these two narratives not only as an ethical or political construct but equally as an aesthetic element that significantly adds to the ethical import of Chuang’s and Ng’s fiction.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversitaetsverlag Winter GmbH; Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Amerikastudien
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAmerikastudien / American studies
dc.relation.urihttps://www.winter-verlag.de/en/programm/zeitschriften/amerikastudien/
dc.subject.otherChuang Hua
dc.subject.otherFae Myenne Ng
dc.subject.otherliterature studies
dc.subject.othermelancholia
dc.titleDisplaced desires : the dislocated self and melancholic desire in Chuang Hua's Crossings and Fae Myenne Ng's Steer toward rock
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-201608253874
dc.contributor.laitosMusiikin, taiteen ja kulttuurin tutkimuksen laitosfi
dc.contributor.laitosDepartment of Music, Art and Culture Studiesen
dc.contributor.oppiaineKirjallisuusfi
dc.contributor.oppiaineLiteratureen
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle
dc.date.updated2016-08-25T12:15:11Z
dc.type.coarjournal article
dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.format.pagerange255-273
dc.relation.issn0340-2827
dc.relation.numberinseries2/3
dc.relation.volume60
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© Pehkoranta & Universitaetsverlag Winter GmbH, 2015. Published in this repository with the kind permission of the publisher.
dc.rights.accesslevelopenAccessfi
dc.subject.ysokirjallisuudentutkimus
dc.subject.ysomelankolia
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p1066
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p13313


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