Writing a Personal Archipelago in Luis H. Francia’s The Eye of Fish

• 발행기관: 건국대학교 모빌리티인문학 연구원, 건국대학교 아시아·디아스포라 연구소
• 저자명: Francis C. Sollano
• 간행물 정보: 『International Journal of Diaspora&Cultural Criticism』Vol.7 No.1, 47~87쪽, 전체 41쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2017.01.30

영문 초록

This paper treats Luis H. Francia’s The Eye of Fish: A Personal Archipelago (2001) as a text metonymic of Filipino American writing and identity formation. Using a Foucauldean framework that highlights Francia’s awareness of his subject position as being both the writer and the product of his work, self-writing is presented as an ongoing process of creation a blurring of the boundaries between the imaginative and autobiographical, the literary and the extraliterary (historical, social, and critical). Part of the examination of Francia’s imagined “personal archipelago” is the complex intersections of Philippine geography and society, its neocolonial and diasporic history, and the argument that Filipino America is a space that provides for the continuous re-creation of identity and imagination.

목차

1. Introduction: Fragmented Memory

2. A Shimmering, A Froth: Anti/Autobiographical Interventions

3. Position and Paranoia: Filipino American Identity

4. Conclusion: Imagining Home

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키워드

Diasporic writing Filipino American studies Foucault Hupomnē mata Self-writing