흑백버디무비와 아시아의 타자화

• 영문명: The Black-and-White America and Racialization of Asia
• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: 임경규(Kyeong-Kyu Im)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제87호, 125~150쪽, 전체 26쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2008.06.30

영문 초록

  The United States has recently witnessed old "yellow perilism" reemerging in anti-immigrant sentiment. Neil Gotanda has called this neo-yellow-perilism "Asiatic racialization," a process characterized by "[a] group of related yet distinct ideas - Asiatic unassimilability, the conflation of Asian Americans with Asian citizens, and the perception of Asians as a threat to the American nation." Marginalization of Asian and Asian American people in the United States, however, cannot be reduced to a simple binary opposition between US and Asia; it is rather overdetermined by not only international power relations but also US"s domestic racial relations which have been historically constructed and inevitably connected with other problems such as race, gender and nation.
  This essay, therefore, will argue that Asian Americans and Asians have been and are being otherized and marginalized in American society by historically specific black-and-white racial logics of American nation. To do this, this essay will closely look at the narrative structure of American popular culture, especially, Hollywood black-white buddy movies such as Rising Sun (1993) and Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) in terms of what Brian Locke has defined as a figure of "brinkmanship." The figure of brinkmanship--predicated upon a black-and-white binary logic about American nation--is often ideologically employed by the dominant culture as a means of both incorporating African Americans into American nation while controling African Americans" claim for human rights. Yet such a binary logic has a dreadful impact on Asian and Asian American identity. Imagining America as a black-and-white nation requires any figure of an outside enemy threatening the unity of the nation. In many black-white buddie movies, Asian males have been constructed as the paradigmatic other-that against which the black-and-white America can in one way or another imagine its identity. The result is that Asians and Asian Americans have been constructed as eternal aliens in American popular culture.

목차

Ⅰ. 서론
Ⅱ. 흑백공멸론
Ⅲ. 흑백 버디무비와 아시아: 〈떠오르는 태양〉
Ⅳ. 수용 가능한 타자로서의 아시아: 〈리셀 웨폰 4〉
Ⅴ. 결론을 대신하여: 〈헤롤드와 쿠마〉와 아시아계 미국인의 미래
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Abstract

키워드

아시아 아시아계 미국인 미국민족 인종 인종화 흑백공멸론 흑백버디무비 Asian and Asian American American nation race racialization brinkmanship black-white buddy movies