Re-Imagined Homes: Transnational Asian American Writing in Annie Wang’s<i> The People’s Republic of Desire<i/>

Authors

  • Binbin Fu, Edgewood College, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31436/asiatic.v9i1.578

Abstract

This essay proposes that Annie Wang's The People’s Republic of Desire (2006) offers a new home-identity alignment for Asian American subjectivity in the transnational space of the Pacific Rim, an alternative to the predominant cultural nationalist model for home-identity configuration defined within the US nation-state boundaries. It argues that contemporary cosmopolitan life brought about by global capital has created a more flexible, border-defying cultural imaginary across the Pacific for Asian American writing and the making of Asian American identity outside the nation-state, yet its fluidity, by dissolving the traditional bond between home and identity, also signifies Asian Americans' continuous displacement and dividedness between national and transnational imperatives.

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Author Biography

Binbin Fu, Edgewood College, USA

Binbin Fu is an associate professor of English and Chinese at Edgewood College in the US, where he teaches ethnic American literature, world literature and Chinese. He has published essays, reviews and translations on contemporary Chinese film and fiction, literary criticism and translation studies. His research interests include Asian American literature, global and diasporic literature and contemporary Chinese literature.

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Published

2015-06-15

How to Cite

Fu, Edgewood College, USA, B. (2015). Re-Imagined Homes: Transnational Asian American Writing in Annie Wang’s&lt;i&gt; The People’s Republic of Desire&lt;i/&gt;. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 9(1), 51–67. https://doi.org/10.31436/asiatic.v9i1.578

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2015): June

Section

Articles on “Narratives of ‘Unstable Homes’” in Asian American Literature

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