Gish Jen’s Mona in the Promised Land: envisioning nation as a polycultural community

IF 0.7 Q3 ETHNIC STUDIES Social Identities Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI:10.1080/13504630.2023.2187367
Jagdish Gupta, S. Malik
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ABSTRACT This paper proposes to examine Gish Jen’s novel Mona in the Promised Land from polycultural/transcultural perspective. Polyculturalism dismisses the notion that individuals’ relationships to cultures are categorical and proposes that they are rather partial and plural; that cultural traditions are not independent, sui generis lineages but rather interacting systems is another assumption of the framework. Individuals are open to influences from multiple cultures and thereby become conduits through which cultures can affect each other. A polyculturalist rubric provides a better understanding of multiple cultural identities in literary works. Moreover, the concept brings into sharp focus how cultures are changed by contact with other cultures, enabling richer psychological theories of intercultural influence. Although polyculturalism and transculturalism provide an alternative framework to traditional paradigms, this is not to lose sight of the fact that they are extensions and improvements on colorblindness and multiculturalism. Multiculturalism has had its own history of reinventions from exclusionary multiculturalism to liberal multiracialism, critical multiracialism etc. that sought to supplement its limitations. The paper examines, with reference to Mona in the Promised Land, how different scientific paradigms about culture proffer different ideologies and policies and how polyculturalism or transculturalism with their policy of interculturalism provide a valuable complement to the traditional ideologies of colorblindness and multiculturalism.
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任碧莲的《梦娜在应许之地》:把国家想象成一个多元文化的共同体
摘要本文拟从多文化/跨文化的角度来审视任的小说《乐土中的梦娜》。多元文化主义否定了个人与文化的关系是绝对的,并认为它们是相当部分和复数的;文化传统不是独立的、独特的谱系,而是相互作用的系统,这是该框架的另一个假设。个人容易受到多种文化的影响,从而成为文化相互影响的渠道。多元文化主义的评判标准可以更好地理解文学作品中的多重文化身份。此外,这一概念使人们更加关注文化是如何通过与其他文化的接触而改变的,从而使跨文化影响的心理学理论更加丰富。尽管多元文化主义和跨文化主义为传统范式提供了一个替代框架,但这并不是要忽视这样一个事实,即它们是对色盲和多元文化主义的延伸和改进。多元文化主义有其自身的重塑历史,从排斥性的多元文化主义到自由的多种族主义、批判的多种族论等,都试图补充其局限性。本文结合《应许之地》中的莫娜,探讨了不同的文化科学范式如何提供不同的意识形态和政策,以及多元文化主义或跨文化主义及其跨文化主义政策如何为传统的色盲和多元文化主义意识形态提供有价值的补充。
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期刊介绍: Recent years have witnessed considerable worldwide changes concerning social identities such as race, nation and ethnicity, as well as the emergence of new forms of racism and nationalism as discriminatory exclusions. Social Identities aims to furnish an interdisciplinary and international focal point for theorizing issues at the interface of social identities. The journal is especially concerned to address these issues in the context of the transforming political economies and cultures of postmodern and postcolonial conditions. Social Identities is intended as a forum for contesting ideas and debates concerning the formations of, and transformations in, socially significant identities, their attendant forms of material exclusion and power.
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