본문 바로가기
  • Home
Basic Search

Miscegenation and Hybridity in Diana Son’s Satellites

  • Journal of Modern English Drama
  • Abbr : JMBARD
  • 2014, 27(3), pp.425-442
  • Publisher : 한국현대영미드라마학회
  • Research Area : Humanities > English Language and Literature > English Literature > Contemporary English Drama

주경정 1

1동서울대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

In this paper, I investigate Diana Son’s Satellites (2006) in terms of how hybridity of mixed race characters is defined in connection with miscegenation and multiplicity of racial and cultural identity. I address the question of whether mixed race people claim or reject their multiple racial identities as well as discuss Satellites from the perspective of interracial marriage which is tangent on other matters such as Korean identity and African identity, African American communities, and white Americans. Miscegenation and hybrid identities of minorities do increasingly become problematic in a multicultural American society; however, Satellites presents a meaningful negotiation or potentially harmonious co-existence of Korean Americans and African Americans. The interracial marriage couple-Korean American Nina and African American Miles-believes in a balanced compromise of racial and cultural identities in raising their-mixed race child in multicultural environment. Hannah, the mixed child, implies a connection cultural hybridity. Hybrid identity is interrelated in a larger picture of Korean American identity. The Korean American play, Satellites has attempted to envision a possible resolution of racism among different races in multicultural America. Even though the problems may not be removed completely, the play points to the positive reconciliatory potentials. As Korean Americans become more and more multicultural and multiracial, they are asked to think deeply how to assimilate themselves into the multinational American society. What they need to recognize, indeed, might be the inevitable hybridity and multiplicity of identity.

Statistics

  • 211 Viewed
  • 0 Downloaded

Tools

Issue List

Citation status

* References for papers published after 2023 are currently being built.

Basic Search Advanced Search