农业与亚裔美国文学

Agriculture and Asian American Literature

农业是亚裔美国文学中的重要主题,但相关研究却不足。亚裔美国文学中的农业书写,往往反映了农业在美国亚裔历史中的重要作用。亚裔农场主和农场劳工对美国农业至关重要,他们从事农业劳动的经历为二战前美国亚裔社区的形成奠定了基础。另外,亚裔美国文学中的农业书写反映了美国田园主义和杰斐逊重农主义的种族化传统,凸显了美国社会的种族和经济剥削制度,将美国农业经济和美国殖民主义以及新殖民主义联系起来。因此,亚裔美国文学中的农业书写可以揭示21世纪美国替代食物运动的重农主义中有关种族、财产和公民身份的种种假设。卡洛斯·布洛桑、山本久惠和大卫·马斯·松本的作品反映了这些特点。

Agriculture is a significant yet understudied theme in Asian American literature.Representations of farming in Asian American literature often respond to and engage with agriculture’s important role in Asian American history.As farmers and as farm laborers,Asian Americans have been pivotal to US agriculture,and this agricultural experience was foundational to the formation of Asian American communities in the period prior to World War II.Additionally,literary representations of agriculture in Asian American literature navigate racialized traditions of American pastoral and Jeffersonian agrarianism.They have often done so in ways that highlight the systems of racial and economic exploitation at work in US society and position US agribusiness in relationship to US colonialism and neo-colonialism.Consequently,Asian American literature’s representations of farming can expose the assumptions around race,property,and citizenship at work in the agrarianism of the 21 st-century US alternative food movement.The writings of Carlos Bulosan,Hisaye Yamamoto,and David Mas Masumoto provide case studies of these trends.