@article{ART001549413},
author={Cheon, Sun-young},
title={The Possibility of Constructing Different Subjectivity: ‘Asianness' and Asian American Identity in Julia Cho's The Architecture of Loss},
journal={Journal of Modern English Drama},
issn={1226-3397},
year={2011},
volume={24},
number={1},
pages={101-123}
TY - JOUR
AU - Cheon, Sun-young
TI - The Possibility of Constructing Different Subjectivity: ‘Asianness' and Asian American Identity in Julia Cho's The Architecture of Loss
JO - Journal of Modern English Drama
PY - 2011
VL - 24
IS - 1
PB - 한국현대영미드라마학회
SP - 101
EP - 123
SN - 1226-3397
AB - The critical issues surrounding ‘the universality’ in Julia Cho’s plays—how her works successfully evoke sympathy from white American as well as Asian American audiences, and obtain recognition from the mainstream theatre in the U.S.—are directly related to the politico-literary dilemma of portraying the diasporic identity of Asian Americans. With respect to this, some critics call on question about Cho’s theatrics: if her plays aptly account for the issues of Asian American identity and are neatly categorized as Asian American plays. Therefore, in this paper, I depicts how Cho suggests the different tactic of claiming Asian American subjectivity from former Asian American playwrights’ tactic of constructing self identification (of insisting their cultural intimacy with their ancestor’s Asian homeland) by analyzing one of her desert trilogies, The Architecture of Loss. Cho’s play also suggests ‘different’ subjectivity (displaced subjectivity) and debunks the unstable nature of it by expanding the terrain of marginality—the particularity of Asian Americans (physically and psychologically reincarnated ‘Asianness’: traumatic memory of the past which comes from diasporic experience of their ancestors and innate self-repulsion of their physical appearance which marks their difference)—to the extent of all American individuals. In so doing, her play blurs the difference between Asian American difference and white American norm displaying the reality of the constructing process of all individuals’ subjectivity of the U.S. nation—the displaced identity.
KW - Julia Cho;The Architecture of Loss;Asian American theatre;Asian American identity;the abjection;marginality;diaspora
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Cheon, Sun-young. (2011). The Possibility of Constructing Different Subjectivity: ‘Asianness' and Asian American Identity in Julia Cho's The Architecture of Loss. Journal of Modern English Drama, 24(1), 101-123.
Cheon, Sun-young. 2011, "The Possibility of Constructing Different Subjectivity: ‘Asianness' and Asian American Identity in Julia Cho's The Architecture of Loss", Journal of Modern English Drama, vol.24, no.1 pp.101-123.
Cheon, Sun-young "The Possibility of Constructing Different Subjectivity: ‘Asianness' and Asian American Identity in Julia Cho's The Architecture of Loss" Journal of Modern English Drama 24.1 pp.101-123 (2011) : 101.
Cheon, Sun-young. The Possibility of Constructing Different Subjectivity: ‘Asianness' and Asian American Identity in Julia Cho's The Architecture of Loss. 2011; 24(1), 101-123.
Cheon, Sun-young. "The Possibility of Constructing Different Subjectivity: ‘Asianness' and Asian American Identity in Julia Cho's The Architecture of Loss" Journal of Modern English Drama 24, no.1 (2011) : 101-123.
Cheon, Sun-young. The Possibility of Constructing Different Subjectivity: ‘Asianness' and Asian American Identity in Julia Cho's The Architecture of Loss. Journal of Modern English Drama, 24(1), 101-123.
Cheon, Sun-young. The Possibility of Constructing Different Subjectivity: ‘Asianness' and Asian American Identity in Julia Cho's The Architecture of Loss. Journal of Modern English Drama. 2011; 24(1) 101-123.
Cheon, Sun-young. The Possibility of Constructing Different Subjectivity: ‘Asianness' and Asian American Identity in Julia Cho's The Architecture of Loss. 2011; 24(1), 101-123.
Cheon, Sun-young. "The Possibility of Constructing Different Subjectivity: ‘Asianness' and Asian American Identity in Julia Cho's The Architecture of Loss" Journal of Modern English Drama 24, no.1 (2011) : 101-123.
