The Posthuman Subject in/of Asian American Literature
Posthumanism, an interpretive paradigm that unseats the human individual as the de facto unit of literary analysis, is an uneasy tool to bring to Asian American literature. Such discomfort is not unwarranted, as Asian Americans have been perennially characterized as cognitively, physically, and culturally inhuman. Early Asian immigrants to the United States were legally categorized as “aliens ineligible for citizenship” in order to deter assimilation of first Chinese miners and railroad workers and then Japanese farmers. American writer Jack London depicts Asians with machinic hyperefficiency and a hive mentality, initially in a ... ...
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