Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and CultureStanford University Press, 2005 - 245 pagina's In Double Agency, Tina Chen proposes impersonation as a paradigm for teasing out the performative dimensions of Asian American literature and culture. Asian American acts of impersonation, she argues, foreground the limits of subjectivity even as they insist on the undeniable importance of subjecthood. By decoupling imposture from impersonation, Chen shows how Asian American performances have often been misinterpreted, read as acts of betrayal rather than multiple allegiance. A central paradox informing the book—impersonation as a performance of divided allegiance that simultaneously pays homage to and challenges authenticity and authority—thus becomes a site for reconsidering the implications of Asian Americans as double agents. In exploring the possibilities that impersonation affords for refusing the binary logics of loyalty/disloyalty, real/fake, and Asian/American, Double Agency attends to the possibilities of reading such acts as "im-personations"—dynamic performances, and a performance dynamics—through which Asian Americans constitute themselves as speaking and acting subjects. |
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... Henry's stories - lyrical , cryptic , introspective - do not conform to the conventions of the spy story . The dis- junction between the teller and his tale marks Lee's deliberate reworking of the genre of the spy story , altering it to ...
... Henry's stories - lyrical , cryptic , introspective - do not conform to the conventions of the spy story . The dis- junction between the teller and his tale marks Lee's deliberate reworking of the genre of the spy story , altering it to ...
Pagina 176
... Henry's performances of self.16 Although Henry yearns for a " singular sense of the world " ( 249 ) , he embodies ... Henry's are " never far from theater " ( 69 ) . Characterized by a drama of “ seamlessness [ , ] . . . . imposture is ...
... Henry's performances of self.16 Although Henry yearns for a " singular sense of the world " ( 249 ) , he embodies ... Henry's are " never far from theater " ( 69 ) . Characterized by a drama of “ seamlessness [ , ] . . . . imposture is ...
Pagina 183
... Henry can be more honest about the roles that he plays , the novel resists the temptation of celebrating Henry's liberation from the masks and impostures that he found so debilitating in his spy work . Even the " happy ending ...
... Henry can be more honest about the roles that he plays , the novel resists the temptation of celebrating Henry's liberation from the masks and impostures that he found so debilitating in his spy work . Even the " happy ending ...
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