1 As I haven t finished reading Tan s other novels, The Hundred Secret Senses and The Bone Setter s Daughter, I m not able to comment on them and am only referring to her first two novels in this paper.
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Huang 3 2 ( Violence in the Other Country ) (Writing Diaspora) ( Introduction: Leading Questions ) ( Sugar Sisterhood ) 3 Asian-hell-to-Western-heaven motif
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Huang 7 8 WorldCat Kerouac ( Bohemian ) ( romantic ) ( arcadianization )
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Huang 12 9 (John Luther Long) / (Madame Butterfly) (The World of Susie Wong) (Miss Saigon)
Huang 13 10 (John Vernon) (xi) 11 its statements can be conceived as the products of a mobile war machine and not the utterances of a rational, administrative machinery, whose philosophers would be bureaucrats of pure reason (149). 12 a kind of war machine that will not re-create a state apparatus, a nomadic unit related to the outside that will not revive an internal despotic unity (149). 13 an adventure suddenly embarked upon by sedentary groups impelled by the attraction of movement, of what lies outside. The nomad and his war machine oppose the despot with his administrative machine: an extrinsic nomadic unit as opposed to an intrinsic despotic unit (Deleuze 148) 14 mocking, teasing, and defiant ( Stakes of Textual Border-Crossing 131).
Huang 14 15 an originary state from which humanity--or the particular minority group in question--has been estranged, or as the end point or telos of an ineluctable, if oftentimes unsteady progress (46). 16 ethnicity as "a construct evocative of blood, nature, and descent, whereas national identity may be relegated to the order of law, conduct, and consent" (151).
Huang 15 17 contestation and home can be located in a simultaneous emergence--that is to say, the contested and the contesting terrain is home. Home, in this sense, can never be a settled space. [...] To see home otherwise, as perhaps final resting place, is to invite the risk of hypostatization and idealization" (47).
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