Pub Date : 2019-04-26DOI: 10.5325/PACICOASPHIL.54.1.0006
Katherine Kinney
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Pub Date : 2019-01-08DOI: 10.5325/PACICOASPHIL.53.2.0289
S. Tinoco
Abstract:The highly praised and sought after American dream occupies a prominent space in the Latin American imaginary, with the depiction of the United States as the land of opportunity having captivated the desires of many. The American dream is often thought about as an aspirational goal encompassing good work with a fair salary enabling a decent life and the possibility of sending children to good schools, acquiring a house, and so on. However, as we will see in specific cultural products about undocumented immigrants from the beginning of the last century to today, there is another side to this story. This article will first consider the point of departure of the American dream not as a path toward a better life but as a running away for survival. Second, the article will reflect on the face of longing central to the American dream immigration story, in which what is craved is not the aforementioned material goods, but instead the embrace of a husband, a father, or a mother gone long ago, as well as regaining a sense of identity, family, and belonging.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-08DOI: 10.5325/PACICOASPHIL.53.2.0217
K. Cheang
Abstract:This article reads Gish Jen’s Mona in the Promised Land (1996) as a work of metafamily fiction. Troubling the conventional interpretation of Mona as a novel of intergenerational conflict that concludes with a happy ending, this article argues that the novel can be more meaningfully understood as a satirical commentary on traditional forms of the immigrant family romance. The argument draws on Sianne Ngai’s work on tone to shed light on the perfunctory-ness in the narrator’s voice in the “epilogue,” and to re-interpret that section as a metafictional element which Jen attached to Mona to appease the editorial imperatives of the neoliberal market, while indicating her own authorial position’s embeddedness in that same market’s appetite for good feelings from Asian American literature. The article further employs Jonathan Flatley’s theory of counter-mood to re-position “Chapter 15: Discoveries” as the more sincere ending within Mona. In that chapter, Jen subverts the idealization of the model minority family by presenting an anti-resolution that resists the positive affect of narrative closure as part of her critique of normative familial aesthetics which political conservatism began to agitate for in the aftermath of the civil rights movement.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-08DOI: 10.5325/PACICOASPHIL.53.2.0286
Sandra Maresh Doe
I never knew that the 3rd wife passed on the work of an artist’s wife to me. She gave me “The Box.” The box rode in the back seat of the Ford 500 Galaxy, my 1975 car, and me just thirty-five, too young to be married to a sixty-eight-yearold dead Art Maker. I ferried it across Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, home of the bourgeois middle class, stable enough to clean, preserve, restore, frame, organize, sleuth, make it up, travel to see, hire a photographer, digitize, post, present, visit the archives, sleuth some more, distract, propose, present, sleep with documents, chase after records, cornfields, catalogue, compose bibliography, write, revise, rewrite, PowerPoint, my whole life. S A N D R A M A R E S H D O E M E T R O P O L I TA N S TAT E U N I V E R S I T Y O F D E N V E R
我从来不知道第三任妻子把艺术家妻子的作品传给了我。她给了我“盒子”。盒子放在福特500 Galaxy的后座上，这是我1975年的车，我只有35岁，太年轻了，不能嫁给一个68岁的已故艺术创客。我把它运过亚利桑那州、新墨西哥州、科罗拉多州，那里是资产阶级中产阶级的家园，足够稳定，可以清洁、保存、修复、装帧、组织、侦查、化妆、旅行、雇佣摄影师、数字化、张贴、呈现、参观档案、侦查更多、分散注意力、求婚、呈现、与文件睡觉、追逐记录、玉米地、目录、撰写参考书目、写作、修订，重写，PowerPoint，我的一生。S A N D R A M A R E S H D O E M E T R O P O L I TA N S TAT E U N I V E R S I T Y O F D E N V E R
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Pub Date : 2019-01-08DOI: 10.5325/PACICOASPHIL.53.2.0175
Vorris L. Nunley
Abstract:Post-family interventions interrogate and modify heteronormative and white-centered preconceptions of the family. This article supports that project while asking what issues an optimistic perspective on the post-family may elide. Approaching the topic through the lenses of rhetoric and cultural studies, the article focuses on dilemmas of economic and social precarity under neoliberalism that remain unaddressed by an idealized advocacy of post-family formations. Post-family discourses must learn to recognize and articulate the concerns of the besieged precariat.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-08DOI: 10.5325/PACICOASPHIL.53.2.0198
Mica Hilson
Abstract:This article proposes that the motif of the family tree might be reimagined, so as to incorporate a wider and more fluid set of relations. After offering a critical analysis of the normative images of the family tree and the rhetorical sleights of hand they perform, it suggests that we might locate alternative models of the family tree by closely examining literary representations of actual trees. It then focuses on two Australian novels that offer unconventional depictions of trees while valorizing queer kinship relations outside the constraints of the nuclear family: David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon (1993) and Patrick White’s Riders in the Chariot (1961). Through a close examination of how Malouf and White each depict the tree’s temporality, its dynamic motion, and its active engagement with surrounding organisms, the article points to aspects of the natural world that might help inform and enrich our conceptions of the family tree.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-08DOI: 10.5325/pacicoasphil.53.2.0251
Krista Lukas
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Pub Date : 2019-01-08DOI: 10.5325/PACICOASPHIL.53.2.0272
Kimberly M. Jew
Abstract:This article explores the troubling intersections among postcolonial, metafamily, and memory studies in Three Years on Doreen’s Sofa (2011), a novel by Lee Cataluna. Through this colorful recidivist tale of a dysfunctional local man named Bobby, Cataluna weaves together a tragicomic story that sharply critiques the breakdown of contemporary social and family ties in Hawai’i. Bobby’s meandering, picaresque journey through Maui highlights the diverse forms of imprisonment and memory loss that have debilitated contemporary Hawaiian society. As Bobby seeks to connect on the outside to his friends, family, and his past, he is confronted by postcolonial legacies that have degraded the possibilities for authentic subjectivity, memory, intimacy, and familial bonding.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-08DOI: 10.5325/PACICOASPHIL.53.2.0350
J. Delgado
Abstract:In this poetic essay, Juan Delgado focuses on the multigenerational migrations of his Mexican family, focusing on their border crossings into the United States. Remembering his own attempt to obtain his U.S. citizenship, Delgado explores the complexities of his mother’s exile and the nomadic life of his legally mixed-status family; he also writes about the importance of his Catholic traditions and his mother’s storytelling as ways to resist assimilation and retain a connection to Mexico. The family’s struggles and Delgado’s growth as a poet are read through a larger political and cultural framework that calls attention to Latin American movements such as Nueva Canción and Liberation Theology. The title of the article alludes to José Martí’s seminal essay. Delgado wrestles to understand what it means to be a resident in a pluralistic and multicultural continent stitched up by its border crossings.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-08DOI: 10.5325/PACICOASPHIL.53.2.0239
C. Nolte-Odhiambo
Abstract:Focusing on Emma Donoghue’s fairy-tale retellings for young readers, this article explores the implications of stories that stray from the conventional script of children’s literature by rejecting normative models of belonging as well as happily-ever-after permanence. Instead of securely positioning the child on the path toward reproductive futurism and the creation of a new family home, these tales present radical visions of queer futurity and kinship and upend normative child-adult relations. Drawing in particular on Sara Ahmed’s work on happiness and Judith (Jack) Halberstam’s analysis of queer time, this article analyzes how Donoghue’s versions of “Cinderella” and “Hansel and Gretel” unhome their protagonists and cast them outside of heteronormative temporality.
摘要：本文以艾玛·多诺霍为年轻读者的童话复述为中心，探讨了偏离传统儿童文学剧本的故事的含义，这些故事拒绝了规范的归属模式，也拒绝了幸福的永恒模式。这些故事并没有让孩子安全地走上生殖未来主义和创建新家庭的道路，而是呈现了对酷儿未来和亲属关系的激进愿景，颠覆了规范的儿童与成人关系。本文特别借鉴了Sara Ahmed关于幸福的作品和Judith（Jack）Halberstam对酷儿时间的分析，分析了Donoghue版本的《灰姑娘》和《Hansel and Gretel》如何解开主人公的面纱，并将他们置于非规范的时间之外。
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